I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

My life and career is my own adventure.

Freedom carries sacrifice,

I had been overexposed in a particular way because my marriage to an extremely successful older man meant I was involved in his public life as well as my own.

I think prime ministers, I actually think Cabinet ministers should be subject to intense scrutiny, I think that's in the public interest, even if some of the allegations made aren't right and so on, and they have to correct the record, it doesn't matter.