My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

We all possess, like it or not, the people we know, and are possessed by them in turn.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.