Actors! They travel the world and all they see is a mirror.

If I don't read, I get lonely. If I don't write, I forget who I am.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

As David Roderick says about writing, "It's not the tale that pleases, it's the telling," and I could not agree more.

Failure makes Success more appreciable

Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

Mathematics is the source of a wicked intellect that, while making man the lord of the earth, also makes him the slave of the machine.

Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.

And you must love him, ere to you He will seem worthy of your love.