In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks. )
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.
I gave myself to my children. It happens to some women.
I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.
The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.
Somewhere inside we do know everything about ourselves. There is no real forgetting. Perhaps we know somewhere, too, about all there is to come.
Because if you're going to lose, lose. I'm serious.
I do think British tailoring is the best. French people hate me when I say that, but I do think it's true.
I just put drugs down to luck. I persevere quite honestly, and I've got a fair amount of discipline that keeps me out of deep water.
He's got a great right foot, and if he can get his head around that he'll be a great player.