I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a very withdrawn adult to living in Paris as a full-time writer. It has also given me enormous confidence.
A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart.
I've always looked at independent booksellers in a romantic light.
I don't read a lot of books that were published after 1755. One thing about having friends in New York who belong to the literary world, however, is that I have a steady stream of books coming to the house.
I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them I don't know yet. She's writing it all herself.
My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.
My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Books and marriage go ill together.
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.