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I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

If people want to take their lives and are helped to do so, the punishment is tragic for all concerned.

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.

It is a nice sunny day; his bunions have stopped hurting. There is always something to celebrate, in Gerrit's view.

I'm quite easy to live with and very easy going.

Evelyn's New Age daughter will discover that a good shag beats hugging a guru any day.
- Helen Falconer, book reviewer for The Guardian

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

One sees more and more people who are miserable and demented and you feel it would be both kind and wise to leave them a few pills.

'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.

I like missing someone and being missed; I like looking forward to seeing him again. I like getting emails and texts with lots of xxx's.

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

But you have to be courageous, my friend, and unafraid of pain. For only through pain will the beauty of the world be revealed.' He

You need to know the characters as living, breathing people before you start the plot; otherwise, you'll feel panic, anarchy and chaos.

Everything will be all right in the end ... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end.

Psych yourself up until you're confident that the world will be interested in what happens to your characters. Confidence is key.

I'm mad about gardening. I have an allotment on the other side of Hampstead Heath, and I keep three hens in my garden.

I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.

Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.

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.

Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.

You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.

I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

There's no such thing as an ugly woman, just not enough brandy. Of