“I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,0...” — Tracy Chevalier Quote

“I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.”

“I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.”

“Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.”

“Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.”

“My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and then write longhand, into a notebook. I prefer paper and pen because it feels closer to my brain.”

“As long as I feel good with my behaviour and how I dress, I am satisfied. The most important thing is to perform well on the field, then people respect you much more than when you're wearing certain clothes.”

“What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

“That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love.”

“I do have my insecurities, but I feel good in my skin, and my heart is full of love.”

“I feel good at 115.”

“You should never walk out of the house and not feel good about you.”