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I'm an escapist kind of writer.
Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.
I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.
Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.
My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
Money doesn't make you happy, but it gives a zone of comfort around you.
I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.
I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.
I do try to live every day as if it were my last, and it has worked for me so far.
The most important thing to realize is that everyone is capable of telling a story.
I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.
I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.
In my stories, whenever there's somebody wonderful and charming and bright and intelligent, that's me!
If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine and curry and cheeses.
If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.
We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.
I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
I was fat, and that was awful because when you're young and sensitive, you think the world is over because you're fat.
I'm pleased to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I realize I am a writer people buy to take on vacation.
My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'
I have been lucky enough to travel a lot, meet great people in many lands. I have liked almost everyone I met along the way.
I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
I think I'm brave because I've made decisions based - I hope not entirely selfishly - on what I think is right for me to do next.
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.