To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
I'm a big fan of 'Woody Allen' movies, so I like all the actresses in his movies like 'Diane Keaton' and Mia Farrow.
Writing is a way of life. I do it because it's a way of experiencing the world, and trying to come to terms with it and understand it and express it and engage with it. And to me it's a natural extension of reading.
I have a huge passion for literature.
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight for such a long time that after a while it's just the horizon - and then one day birds wheel over that dark shape and it's suddenly close, and all you can do is hope like hell that you've had the right shots.
How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.
The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.
There's only one head bigger than Tony Greig's - and that's Birkenhead
The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.