As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we're separated from the phsical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare.

When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.

Gettting to know your characters is so much more important than plotting. Working out every detail of your story in advance, especially when you don't yet know your main characters, always seems a little too much like playing God. You're working out your characters' lives, their destiny, before they've had a chance to discover who they are and what kind of people they want to be.

Don't make the mistake of bringing your heart down here with you, there is no place for it in Furnace.

It's one of the things I love most about being an author - seeing the different covers from each country.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.