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My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and... →
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.
You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs... →
Living together places a huge burden on the other person to be lover, friend, entertainments manager, chef, domestic help, which is almost impossible... →
All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.
I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.