I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

...and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything