Names govern the world.
If you talk to any cop, however hardened, and say, "Has anything that's ever bothered you", they'll tell you about the death of a child that they had to deal with.
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
. . . I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.
A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'TimesSunday Times,' the 'GuardianObserver,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.
The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
[To her host upon leaving a party:] Don't think it hasn't been charming, because it hasn't.
I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.
We call the heroes of the past heroes of production. We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'. Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.