Nobody Is Ordinary If You

When I Was Younger, I Avoided Exercise Or Anything Strenuous. I Didn't Even Enjoy Walking. As I Got Older, I Spent So Much Time Marking Books Or Sitting At A Desk Writing That There Was No Room For Exercise - Not That I Would Have Bothered Anyway.

If I See Marian Keyes' Books Or Patricia Scanlan's Books Given More Prominence Than Mine In The Bookstore, I'll Move Mine To The Front. I've Told Them I Do This, And They've Confessed To Doing The Same Thing To Me.

The Biggest Influence On My Books Was The Fact That I Had Worked In A Newspaper For So Long. In A Daily Paper, You Learn To Write Very Quickly; There Is No Time To Sit And Brood About What You Are Going To Say.

Everybody Is A Hero In Their Own Story If You Just Look.

I Once Got A Huge, Expensive Flower Arrangement From A Person I Didn't Like, Who Sent It Out Of Pure Guilt. It Had A Hideous Bird-of-paradise In The Middle, And I Thought It Would Never Fade And Die. I Hated It.