I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.

Give love and Get BetrayalThis is true same as much as Death is true

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

The truth is for suckers, Johnny Boy!

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.

I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.