It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

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.

My life is not my own business.

I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.

Good collaboration essentially boils down to personalities who work well together and are able to integrate each other's notes and ideas without killing each other.

People are concerned over safety and spillage, especially for the workers. Were all really hopeful even though we remain deeply concerned over the safety and the efficacy of an unproven technology.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.