I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.