Joanna Trollope

I always love writing about children.

Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out into the world.

I don't need to marry again. I've been married twice, and I love it when it works, but these days we live until we're 80 and marriages are jolly long.

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.