Quotes About Author

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

I was shocked, and I ended up contacting three academics to find out if it could possibly be that my grandmother was a courtesan.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short.

I seem to be failing in my intention to be as boring as I possibly can be for self-protection.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

My goal is to produce as rich and historical an experience for the reader as I possibly can, to the point where when somebody finishes reading the book, he or she emerges from it with a sense of having lived in the past.

In the post war period I began again to have my doubts about Russian policy.

I watched Magic because of his passing, and Hakeem because of his post moves.

Being that my name is attached to Disney, especially when it comes to social media, I always have to be careful with what I post.

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.

Hate Story' is about power of women and I feel her bare back poster with a gun justifies it.

When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.

I don't like posting my opinion on social media and responding to controversies that might follow.

I know pretty much all my analytics and I take that into consideration when I'm posting.

In Glendale, where I live, there's a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them.

There will be no hard border from Dundalk to Derry in the context of it being a European border, and by that I mean customs posts every mile along the road.