"Fair Kent, ... What countrie hath this isle that may compare with thee?"

"Ye scenes, my melancholy soul that fill! Where Nature’s voice no crowds tumultuous drown, And but through brakes of t…"

"Much of my work is about love," she says. "I know that sounds naive, but it is about my relationship with people and …"

"Editorial work came easily to me, but it was always a means to an end – it consumed me, it interested me, but I still…"

"The common link was that they all felt unloved as kids. I actually felt the whole thing wasn't that psychologically i…"

"I think that anyone who is working creatively is a bit like litmus paper," she concludes. "I soak up a lot of stuff. …"

"Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margin green The paths of pleasur…"

"An omnibus across the bridge Crawls like a yellow butterfly, And, here and there, a passer-by Shows like a little res…"

"Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew— (Twenty Bridges or twenty-two)— Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were y…"

"I have seen the Mississippi. That is muddy water. I have seen the St Lawrence. That is crystal water. But the Thames …"