The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.