Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

...he went into the sitting room, put on a Duke Ellington record he had bought after seeing Gene Hackman sitting on the overnight bus in The Conversation to the sound of some fragile piano notes that were the loneliest Harry had ever heard.

Let me say here and now that faith has never done me any good, only doubt. So that is what has become my testament.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake, when your mind is just drifting, you have no censorship; you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.