More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

As someone who has long loved history and reads a lot of history, especially when you get a distance like 130 years, these people can seem almost mythical, and you need something tangible to make them real.

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.