I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

I am often criticised for being rather accessible.

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are of equal importance.

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.

I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not.