Ive learned never to try and force words to come.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I'll buy metaphor, but simile's a cop-out used by scaredycats who won't commit to anything. Simile's for cowards.

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.