He's a tough customer and proud of it.

An exuberant personality, often laughing while she wrote, she was also a tough customer with editors, regularly resisting advice that she thought threatened the integrity of the novels into which she poured so much wit and learning.

I had a game plan to break him down slowly because he's a tough customer but I got out there and heard the roar of the crowd and thought, 'I'll knock him out quick'.