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" I, a late riser, fantasise about getting up every morning at 5 A.M. to fetch the horses in from the fields. "

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" My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. "

" Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. "

" I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person. "

" One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books. "

" I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs. "

" I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen. "

" My husband is my most valuable resource. "

" People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry. "

" I lived in New York for 10 years, and every New Yorker sees a shrink. "

" I've been fired five times for having a bad attitude. "

" Although I've lived in England for more than twenty years, I still have a foreigner's passion for all the details of English history and rural life. "

" Nowadays, I only review books I really like. It's cowardly, I know, but I figure it's not my job to make people unhappy. I'll leave that to the professionals. "

" I have never written out of a desire to be controversial. "

" Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. "

" Like many other people of my generation, I don't think I ever really bothered to grow up. I wasn't ever really a proper teenager until I was about 19, and maybe I got a bit stuck there, because it seemed to go on and on. "

" The average attention span of the modern human being is about half as long as whatever you're trying to tell them. "

" While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps. "

" My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. "

" I'd like to think life has improved since 1850, despite the long hours we all seem to spend slaving over hot computers, but the psychological journeys remain the same - the search for love, identity, a meaningful place in the world. "

" There's an overwhelming sense of paranoia in the suburbs. People there seem so much more paranoid to me than people in the city about their kids being kidnapped or their parties being raided or their drinks being spiked. There's a kind of hysteria about that. "

" When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. "

" I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. "

" I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live. "

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" I loved horses and horse books as a child. "

" Life is absolutely horrific, leading up to absolute horror. "

" I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. "

" I'm not sure I can write about America for the same reason I'm not sure I can write about adults - I have no critical distance on either place. "