Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.

It was the day my grandmother exploded.

I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!

Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.

There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.