When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.

Time, the human dimension, which makes us everything we are.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

When policemen go to prison in England, they have as bad a time as a pedophile.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.

It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.