If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.