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

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" The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life. "

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" 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. "

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

" It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading. "

" Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It's that extremity that I'm interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly. "

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

" When I was at university, there was such a strong delineation between city kids and those who had grown up the suburbs. City kids were so at home in the world, in a way that suburban kids take years to catch up, if indeed they ever can. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Life doesn't go on forever, and you don't want to drop dead without ever having done what you wanted to do. "

" Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. "

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

" In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. "

" I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" My husband is my most valuable resource. "

" The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess. "