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All through my twenties, I spent more time worrying what I didn't have than thinking about what I did have. I wished that I was taller, had longer legs, slimmer hips, a smaller bottom, even straighter hair.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.

We didn't have everything we wanted when we were younger, but there was never a moment we didn't feel our parents weren't doing everything they could.

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot and always wanted things. But I was too prideful to ask for anything; I always worked for it.

It's natural to want your kids to have all the things you didn't have.

I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.

I was very focused, driven, rigid, work-oriented. I didn't care about having a family or making a home. I didn't think about kids. It's not that I didn't want those things; I just didn't think about them.

I could have anything I wanted and if I didn't have it, it was because I didn't want it.