I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.