I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window..

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden..

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end..

Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, ….

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories..

Discover the times when you're most creative - mornings, nights, afternoons - and clear the time to work then. Many writers find the mornings are bes….

When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching….

Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this oth….

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment..

But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perha….