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Of all the love stories ever published, I have - realistically - read very few.

Do you love this story? If you love it, then you've got to write it.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

I'm always a sucker for a love story.

To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.

I love stories with love in them. I just prefer those films. Every so often, I come across a film where there's no love story. It doesn't have to be romantic, but there's a lack of love, and I don't get that.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

The more I worked on 'Half Brother,' the more it seemed to me the story was really about love in all its possible forms - how and why we decide to bestow it, or withdraw it; how we decide what is more worthy of being loved, and what is less. We are masters of conditional love.

I like the idea of not having a definition of love and romance. The greatest love stories have been about people who haven't come together. More stories like that need to be explored.

I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.