Category: Quotations
Lessons from great philosophers
Born in every generation are the wise people, the thinkers, the guiding lights who can show us the path ahead…
Favourite Egyptian proverbs
Every country has its proverbs, little sayings passed down from generation to generation that impart wisdom and tell truths, and Egypt is no exception.
On writing ‘drunk’ and editing sober
There is a very simple reason I am a writer: I love writing. I love the experience of taking ideas in my imagination and realising them on the page; I love the sense of magic that unfolds as the muse guides the pen; I love to be immersed in a fictional world and to create.
‘How Do I Love Thee?’ Declarations of love in my novels
Happy St. Valentine’s Day! If there was ever a day to make a declaration of love, this is it. We do not need flowers, or
Favourite autumnal quotations
The leaves on the trees in my garden are a riot of colour: crimson and ochre and russet and gloriously ripe yellow. The lawns are
The colourful character behind the wisdom of Legacy
Secrets, deceit, betrayal – and revelation, truth and loyalty: these are the themes that underpin my Andalucían Nights trilogy. In the final book in the
When has an author written enough?
Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights; Anna Sewell – Black Beauty; Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind; Boris Pasternak – Doctor Zhivago; JD Salinger –
How do I love thee? Literary inspirations for Valentine’s Day
There are so many different ways to express that you love someone; often, though, it can be hard to find the words to encapsulate all
‘Choose an author as you would a friend’
‘Choose an author as you would a friend.’ So wrote English poet Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (circa 1633–1685), in his ‘Essay on Translated Verse’:
All the world’s a stage: a Shakespearean echo in Legacy
Have you ever had a melody, or a line of poetry, or a quotation stuck in your mind? It happens to me quite often, especially