I have a sense of doing a lot of work when I'm asleep. Of leaving a problem overnight, waking up with some image or stray word that is probably the solution. So it's a way to get extra work in. I think of it as a very active process.

NOVELIST HILARY MANTEL

She wouldn't even run lines with me because she didn't want any spoilers.

THE LEFTOVERS ACTOR JUSTIN THEROUX on how his wife Jennifer Aniston is a big fan of his TV show

I wouldn't have got a proper job because I'm not that clever with that stuff. So I'd have been digging or dead or really badly into drugs, which would obviously lead to being dead. Rock 'n' roll saved my life.

FORMER OASIS FRONTMAN LIAM GALLAGHER on what he would have been doing if he had not been in the band