[Over breakfast] We discussed the 'novelisation' question. This is where the studio pay someone to novelise my script and sell it as . I've said if this happens I will hang myself. Revolting notion. Beyond revolting. Lindsay [Doran] said that the exe...
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so that these clever, complex statements form slowly and then bloom in my mind. Beethoven does the same thing with his cadence and...
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive.
I'm not the most romantic guy, although I do try.
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.
Sence and Sensibility, for instance, came out in three separate volumes, as did Pride and Prejudice (so the next time you read one of the ubiquitous time-travel Austen adaptations and somebody picks up a single-volume first edition, you can hit your ...
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.
Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.
...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.
Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.
A nervous silence loosens tongues
I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
My mother always used to say, 'There is no path to peace. Peace is the path.'
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.
Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
Before I became a suspense novelist, I wrote romantic suspense as Alicia Scott.
