I always love writing about children.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

Who can know from the word goodbye what kind of parting is in store for us.

.Fire can heal. Somebody needs to see the light, somebody needs to feel the heat. Burn..

Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

Faith does not rely on knowing anything with certainty. It requires only the courage to accept that whatever happens is for the highest good.

My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on.

Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.