Mary Augusta Ward

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

With literary fiction, generally a film maker falls in love with a book. In commercial fiction, it's a producer or studio falling in love with a book they can make into a movie with worldwide appeal.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.