He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.

He has one of those heads people think about cutting off." “Yes. He does.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.