Authors:
  • Writers aren't like plumbers. If you're a plumber, you fix one person's boiler in the morning, then you go and fix another in the afternoon. I didn't want to write a book unless I had something new to say - and it was good to live a little in between.

    "Lucy Hughes-Hallett: 'I'd take tea with Hitler'". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2013.