I Try To Make My Characters Kind

I Remember Watching Myself On Video And Being So Disappointed With Myself Because I Was Constantly Moving Around The Place And Laughing. I Thought, 'i Must Be So Much Louder Than I Think I Am. From Inside It Feels Fine.'

You Can't Lay Down Laws For What People Think And Hope.

The Biggest Influence On My Books Was The Fact That I Had Worked In A Newspaper For So Long. In A Daily Paper, You Learn To Write Very Quickly; There Is No Time To Sit And Brood About What You Are Going To Say.

I Was Lucky Enough To Be Fairly Quick At Understanding What Was Taught, But Unlucky Enough Not To Be Really Interested In It, So I Always Got My Exams But Never Had The Scholar's Love Of Learning For Its Own Sake.

It Was So Silly To Try To Define Things By Words. What Did One Person Mean By Infatuation Or Obsession And Another Mean By Love. The Whole Thing Couldn't Be Tidied Away With Neat Little Labels." - Lena Gray