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.

While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.

I'm good at a lot of things, " he murmured.

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.

people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.

I am asking all Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats, to join us in our campaign to defeat the corrupt establishment and give our government back to the people. It's going to happen.

Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way.

God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.