I won't ever do e-mail.

It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction.

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.