If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Most are middle-class women who are very successful, in areas like banking, the media, the law or running their own businesses - they tend to earn anything from £50,000 up to the millions. They are aged from late 20s to early 50s, and they are looking for a fun night out with no strings attached, because they simply do not have the time for a social life.

I would say the number of women approaching us has more than doubled,

The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places.