I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.

Most actors are small, anyway - at least compared to me.

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.