I really do literally put myself into a character’s shoes.
Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one’s other self listening.
People are different in reality from the way you’ve seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they’re less consistent. They surprise you all the time.
I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden”.
To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.
I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot …
I don’t like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don’t like their attitude, which, if they weren’t young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.
I always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn’t, it would be awful, a failure.
You don’t knock television, even if you don’t always like what they make of your work. It makes all the difference between being an also-ran writer and very famous.
I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher – she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.
I write every morning. From about a quarter to nine to a quarter to one. It might be nine to one, or 8:30 to 12:30.
I’m very fond of Tennessee Williams’ plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw ‘A Street Car Named Desire.’
What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.