Most people like a little sex in their novels.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

Nuts don’t come in bunches. Only grapes do.

I've always been sort of interested in the rural countryside. Things happen out there that are very strange to city dwellers.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.