I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

When you allow people to do what they wish, then that is what they do. They stop doing the things they need to do.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

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

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

They're very beautiful, aren't they? Clouds are very beautiful and yet so often we fail to appreciate them properly. We should do that. We should look at them and think about how lucky we are to have them.