The Frustrated Actress

I'm a frustrated actress. I act all these characters. If I don't cry about them, if I don't laugh at their jokes, if I don't lose my temper and if I don't swear, it doesn't seem I am writing them; someone else is. I act all these characters, I live these characters.

And I never use four-letter words either, just all the 'damns' and 'blasts', and nor will I go into the dockyard atrocities of sex. I imply it and let the reader take it from there.
~Catherine Cookson, DBE, OBE. Author of Kate Hannigan, The Fifteen Streets, and over ninety futher titles. Worldwide sales over 90 million copies.

Quoted in: Richard Joseph's Bestsellers. Top Writers Tell How.