I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.