Writing is a solitary occupation.

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work somehow.

You know what circumcision is, Private?

I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Television is a young person's medium.

I'll happily mentor anyone who wants mentoring, and most of that goes on by internet rather than face to face.