Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide generally into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Outside every thin woman is a fat man trying to get in.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow in and out of the experience rather than having a set entry point.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.