Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

The world's tragedy is that men love women, women love children, and children love hamsters.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

I always love writing about children.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems.

How's daydreaming affecting nightmares?? Showing the light where is all dark!

Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?