I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful….

Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy..

I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exam….

If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walke….

I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes..

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see ….

I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot..

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life,….

Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them..

I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them..

I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way..

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing coul….

I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21..

I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses..

I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation..

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cai….

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives..

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of sa….

Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if ….

If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told the….

I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles….