Philippa Gregory

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

I like writing historical fiction.

I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.

In novelas, sometimes you get the most ridiculous situations, but you make the best of it. But novelas are a very special genre.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.