 Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. |
| Naked is the best disguise. |
| There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. |
| Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. |
| Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. |
| My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. |
| I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. |
| What's invisible to us is also crucial for our own well-being. |
| I'm not a quitter. |
| London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other. |
| Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know. |
| I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people. |
| I don't believe in happy endings. |
| I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to. |
| One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life. |
| Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. |
| I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older. |
| In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey. |
| I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy. |
| I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. |
