Quotes from Rosamunde Pilcher

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

And the wicked thing is, that when we're really upset, we always take it out on the people who are closest and whom we love the most.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

I never expect anything from anybody. I'm a bit Scottish like that - I don't like to be disappointed and let down. I like to take life very slowly.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

There is no magic in all the world like that magic when you sell your first bit of writing.