One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

My feelings towards the newspapers are very affectionate.

Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

I am a print addict. I have an ebook and a computer but I remain hooked on print.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you.

I just wanted to be an actress. It never occurred to me that I could become famous, because I'm not one of those people who's automatically going to be the lead. I always saw myself as the mate.

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately.

Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.