My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.

Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.