Im an accidental entrepreneur.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
You don't get on by being original. You don't get on by being bright. You don't get on by being strong. You get on by being a subtle crook.
I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.
I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.
People who wrote literary novels about the past probably didn't want them pegged as historical fiction. Certainly that was true in England.
I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.
I want one thing I can point to and say, 'that is good, and it's a part of me. '
And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.