“I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
“If you want to kind of try what I do, take life seriously but none of the people in it.”
“Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.”
“So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask."No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.”
“I do like people to read the books twice, because I write my novels about ideas which concern me deeply and I think are important, and therefore I want people to take them seriously. And to read it twice of course is taking it seriously.”