From Graham Greene, I Learnt How To

The Only Time You Truly Become An Adult Is When You Finally Forgive Your Parents For Being Just As Flawed As Everyone Else.

I Want To Be A Popular Novelist Who's Also Serious, Or A Serious Novelist Who's Also Very Accessible.

We Can Rarely Tell Others What We Really Think About Them--not Just Because It Would So Wound Them, But Also Because It Would So Wound Ourselves.

The Decision To Write Full Time Was Made When I Was Twenty-eight Years Old And Had Just Had Two Small Plays Accepted For Bbc Radio.

There Were Moments When I Felt Seriously Unhinged; When I Was Convinced That I Would Never, Ever Recover From What Had Happened, When It Was Absolutely Clear To Me That Life From This Point On Would Be Constant Agony.