There's an old adage of, 'This is what I do, it's not who I am.' There is a line that gets blurry at times because you sometimes become your work, or you sometimes put so much into your work that you can't separate from it. It swallows you up. It really happens during the season and it's a difficult line to manage.

When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him while he made models. He liked it so much that I ended up reading all thirteen of Ransome's books, including the ones that I missed out on. This led my son to 'Treasure Island,' 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Coral Island.'

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

I think the most significant change in my life is the decision to do a series. An hourlong dramatic television series on a broadcast network swallows you and chews you up and refuses to spit you out. You're making a decision that's going to be a profound and significant impact on the practical aspects of your life.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.