Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

I do believe that dreams are interpretable. Analysis and praxis have taught me so.

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

I think it's important to let each thing you write teach you how to write it. You must listen to what you do. Let it be in control. I don't step in until I know what it demands of me.

Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

Four simple chambers.A thousand complicated doors.One of them is yours.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.

Jung Chang was the first person to tell a grand historical, political story through a personal narrative.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

Mourning has its place but also its limits.

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. (Old Doll)

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!

The work for giants...to serve well the guns!