Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

There is a certain fate to the universe and a certain randomness.