When You Are Writing Laws You Are

God Takes Out Your Heart Of Flesh, And Gives You A Heart Of Stone.

'show Up At The Desk' Is One Of The First Rules Of Writing, But For 'wolf Hall' I Was About 30 Years Late.

There Is So Much Else In The World That Is More Interesting [ Than Monarchy].

I Think Psychologically [margaret Thatcher] Is Really Worth Studying. I Am Reading Charles Moore's Biography Of Her, And He Has Gotten Us Right There With A Woman Who Lived The Unexamined Life, And Lived It Deliberately, And Who Has Contempt For History, Even Her Own.

I'm A Very Organised And Rational And Linear Thinker And You Have To Stop All That To Write A Novel.