Linda McCartney

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.

I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.