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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Life develops, changes, is in motion. The forms of literature are not.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

Literature is the question minus the answer.

Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Literature is reflecting what is happening in life. More and more women are having relationships with younger men. It's partly that women are not losing their figures now.

I think sex is a very minor part of most romance novels.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.