So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear; it's what keeps us afraid of the dark.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

You are not living, you are surviving.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what.

The two that are one, the one that is all!