But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

But there are some wounds that can never be healed.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I think writers are very anxious.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Jealous is just a wish that it was you doing that thing.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear I know nothing.

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.