I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.
You must remember garden catalogues are as big liars as house-agents.
For an author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.
A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind.
As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.
The stitch of a book is its words.
There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.
They have a choice as a club. They don't have to sell. Maybe Southampton's objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe. They obviously wanted to change. . . I don't have sympathy, no.
[My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English.
I do not make stories up, full stop.