I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances..

I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-deco….

We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be ….

It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she ….

Do it from the heart or not at all..

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don'….

It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is..

There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents,….

Life was a pre-death experience..

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending..

In this life, you have to be your own hero..

There’s no story that’s the start of itself..

Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was..

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally..

Life is fragmentary, and the pattern that creativity can offer is not one that is imposed, not something rigid, but rather something which can reveal….

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it..

There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your pai….

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain..

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it..

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens..

Passion is not well bred..