The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.

Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle