I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.