Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

Can't complain because nobody listens.

I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.

You can fall in love and make love many times but there is only one bullet with your name etched on the side. And if you are lucky enough to be shot with that bullet then the wound never heals.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.