“I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I...” — Mathew Horne Quote

“I find it ever so archaic, chanting, but I can see why people do it. I love seeing people getting all their frustrations out for the week.”

“My upbringing was very basic working-class on the outskirts of Nottingham. My mother, Glenis, was a nursery nurse, looking after special-needs children, and my father, Brian, became the manager of a lace factory after working his way up as an apprentice.”

“Budapest was very beautiful and spending the day under a canopy of Hungarian trees, on horseback, was fantastic.”

“I guess I'm attracted to more archaic words because they can be imbued with more meaning, because their definition is elusive.”

“This archaic idea - that a woman who is unmarried and childless at 30 is somehow unnatural - will probably always exist, and, like most social standards, it is ridiculous.”

“I could list hundreds of words I've come up against in the course of my work that did not exist in the era of which I was writing and for which I never could find a suitably old-time, archaic or obsolete substitute.”