It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.

I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.

There was a distinction between lying and telling half-truths, but it was a very narrow one.

I am often thanked by people for inventing the term traditionally built. The people who give me thanks for this are often traditionally built themselves.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.