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English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.
I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.
I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'
Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.
While writing a novel, I don't read anything new in fiction. I am too engrossed.
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