Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers

This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.