E. L. James

I'm not a great writer.

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

I value my anonymity. I'm happy to come in on the tube or the train and watch other people reading 'Fifty Shades.'

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.