Wives?" she asked, interrupting him. For a moment, he had assumed she was tuning to the novel. Then he saw her waiting, suspicious eyes, so he replied cautiously, "None active," as if wives were volcanoes.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no-one else can make them.

I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.

I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

A good writer is an expert on nothing except himself. And on that subject, if he is wise, he holds his tongue.