It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

People of this teenager's age are on the brink of adulthood and have to be allowed a greater degree of responsibility. A consequence of this is a decrease in parental responsibility. Therefore to have criminal responsibility for what you don't know about seems rather extreme.

These days - with the decline of the traditional churches - I'm concerned about where we obtain some form of moral direction.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

I have a backlog of novels which I would love to be working on and would be working on if I were not obliged to hold down a full time job.