My problem is that the audience is more fiction-literate than ever. In Shakespeare's day, you probably expected to see a play once or twice in... →
Steven Moffat
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
Dalia Mogahed
It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel... →
Deborah Moggach
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of... →
I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.
'Tulip Fever' did change my life. It did that thing that sometimes happens when a book takes off - it opened doors on to whole other worlds.
Bringing my two children up while writing was just a part of life. I'd much rather have had their interruptions than been stuck in a sterile... →
All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of... →
I am a great believer in having the power to end your life and knowing that, in extremis, you can. But I would not want to involve anybody else in my... →
No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without... →
Moliere