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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

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.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

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.

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

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.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

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 wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.

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