Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

I've never been able to write a book without one very strong character in my rucksack.

Luck's just another word for destiny... either you make your own or you're screwed.