If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can’t avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

I do not click on random youtube videos.

I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.