My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.

Nice day for a funeral.

I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.

My writing has always been what you call 'narrative fiction' in the sense that it's got very strong plots and twists at the end.

He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.