“Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.”

“I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden".”

“What I mind in modern society very much is the awful lack of grammar.”

“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.'”

“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 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.”

“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 always write about subjects which attract me because if I didn't, it would be awful, a failure.”

“The knives of jealousy are honed on details.”

“I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.”

“Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.”