If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

The Army was my bread and butter.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didnt see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.