I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette..

I didn't want the lyrics to be about specific things in my life, I wanted them to be about generalised experiences I'd had. So when I'm writing about….

It's good for you to go somewhere that you wouldn't normally go..

People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everyb….

Only Once In Your Life.

You’re meant for me, and I will have you..

We see not our own backs..

You can be maybe rented but never bought..

You are someone and you have a right to your life..

I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write..

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did..

You're worth what you're worth.

There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die..

My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing..

They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't th….

You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing.….

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetica….

If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to ….

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no….

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy..

When I was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did..