Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.

They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.

Twenty years ago, I was living in a lovely cottage on the edge of Dartmoor but I couldn't afford to run a car.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

I always read that men don't like intelligent girls, but I've always found the reverse.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

Rebecca is an example of how not to manage men. The rules of the game never change, it requires subtlety.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.

Hate is the father of all evil.

It didn't occur to me that it was possible to breathe life into Abraham Lincoln.

Trying to defend religion by invoking science is like claiming that three plus four equals ice cream.

The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

I have permission to live off campus.” She didn’t say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

When I first started working it was as if I didn't understand myself. The fact that I didn't understand myself was tied up with not understanding where I came from, where I began.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the physic predecessor of all real understanding.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Copying or imitation is the highest form of flattery.