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There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

I don't like silk underwear. They don't do the job, you know?

Read everything you can get your hands on: Programme your mind to read all the time and everywhere - even in the bathroom; skim through the lines printed on the back of shampoo bottles and sanitary napkin packets.

When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.

When I don't have any ideas, I pick up fabric and start working with it and something happens.

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.