A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.

Just as a pebble thrown into the water creates ripples, so our thoughts create similar effects on our palms.

The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

Most writers, I'm afraid, live very boring lives sitting in front of a screen. However, having said that: every writer puts a bit of themselves into the characters to bring them alive.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.

All great literary works influence us as writers, not their stories as much as their storytelling ability.