I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.