One last breath. We all have to take one eventually. It was over.

Only another twenty thousand or so days of this to go.

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.

Better to be a spirit with the earth beneath you than a corpse pinned tight by the weight of the world.

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.

That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?