Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Research material can turn up anywhere - in a dusty old letter in an archive, a journal or some old photographs you find in a charity shop.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.

We tend to problem our problem why not let our problems become more problematic than us

Harry and I are misadventurous misadventurers that like to partake in misadventure.

Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

There is something thrilling in the mimesis of life's surprising unfolding.

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.

France now has a new president and he must be respected. I assume full responsibility for this defeat.

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

Liverpool will think 'we could have won this 2-2'

On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff.