I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.