Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on…

- Rosamunde Pilcher

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

- Rosamunde Pilcher

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

- Rosamunde Pilcher

It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And …

- Rosamunde Pilcher

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

- Rosamunde Pilcher

Beyond the pain, life continues to be sweet. The basics are still there. Beauty, food and friendship, reservoirs of love and understanding. Later, po…

- Rosamunde Pilcher

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single in…

- Rosamunde Pilcher

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

- Rosamunde Pilcher

Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.

- Rosamunde Pilcher