Nadine Gordimer

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.

I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

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.

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.