Mary Higgins Clark

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

If you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you some joy in life.

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

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.