Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

Greater than all the joy of success and victory is the joy of true love and the of giving of yourself.

He kissed my palm, lingering his lips on my skin. Then he inhaled. "Mmmm, " he moaned. " Like gin to an alcoholic. Sweet as fresh molasses and deadly as snake venom.

Drama don't arrive by surprise

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Religion is the balm of the people.

After a moment of shrinking back, we domesticate the grotesque.

My life didn't really begin until I met Ronnie.

A character is 2D, and then after I come in it becomes a 3D; it becomes alive.