Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

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

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.

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

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

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