I was asked the other day in which era I would choose to live. As a historical novelist, it comes up sometimes. As a woman I'd have to say I'd like to live in the future - I want to see where these centuries of change are leading us.

Moonrise is a fabulous novel and my damn wife wrote it and that’s me up there near Highlands shouting it out to the hills.

You write once and you can call yourself a writer, but it takes three novels before you can call yourself a novelist. The first two could have just been lucky. One day, I will finish my third, and one day, I will be a novelist.

The moment I close my eyes, I see you and sleep vanishes. I’m awake the entire night, revisiting ourmemories together. The night seems to stretch on forever.

These poems are cupsthat I pour my love into.Here, Drink!

The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.

Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame will last longer?

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.

As you write your novel, you gradually start thinking like some of your characters in it. And at times the writer may lose himself completely in some character.