Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.

You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.