I'm No Good At Anything.

The Corruption Of The Good By The Belief In Their Own Infallible Goodnes Is The Most Bloody Dangerous Pitfall In The Human Spectrum. Once You Have Conquered All Your Sins, Pride Is The One Which Will Conquer You. A Man Starts Off Deciding He Is A Good Man Because He Makes Good Decisions. Next Thing, He's Convinced That Whatever Decision He Makes Must Be Good Because He's A Good Man. Most Of The Wars In The World Are Caused By People Who Think They Have God On Their Side. Always Stick With People Who Know They Are Flawed And Ridiculous.

It's Rather Fun Writing A Female Spy, Because She Has So Much More Kit. Bond Never Carried A Hair Dryer Or A Makeup Bag. And He Certainly Didn't Wear An Uplift Bra.

9p.m. My Flat. Feel Very Strange And Empty. Is All Very Well Thinking Everything Is Going To Be Different When You Come Back But Then It Is All The Same. Suppose I Have To Make It Different. But What Am I Going To Do With My Life? I Know. Will Eat Some Cheese.

I Got Into My Usual Obsessive Writing Frenzy, Using All The Material I'd Worked On For So Long And Crafting It Into A Little Novel [bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

I Think That When You're Writing Fiction What You're Doing Is Reflecting Life As You See It, And Putting Down How You Think And How Other People Think, And The Sort Of Confusions That You Don't Normally Like To Admit To.