 We all lie to each other, present some sort of front. |
| Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun! |
| They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. |
| You know what it's like to persuade a pigheaded child to do something they don't want to. If they hear the same suggestion from someone else, they'll go right off and do it. |
| In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. |
| Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write. |
| I never really know the title of a book until it's finished. |
| I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. |
| I found out only recently that we were making an index of enemy code signs. |
