My Parents Were Sixty Years Married.

If There Is A Heaven, Jane Austen Is Sitting In A Small Room With Mother Teresa And Princess Diana, Listening To Duran Duran, Forever. If There's A Hell, She's Standing.

Do Not Place A Photograph Of Your Favourite Author On Your Desk, Especially If The Author Is One Of The Famous Ones Who Committed Suicide.

I Tend To Plan As I Write. And I Want To Leave Myself Open And The Character Open To Keep On Going Until It Seems To Be The Time To Stop.

Sometimes Adults Seem As Though They Have Cut A Chord From Being A Child.

You Know People Are Always Putting Ulysses In The Top 10 Books Ever Written But I Doubt That Any Of Those People Were Really Moved By It.