There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

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

I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.

The most reward experience is having another writer come up to you and say that they started writing because they read my books. That is how writing as a profession continues: readers becomes writers who inspire new readers.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so I grew up feeling very comfortable around books. Also, Ireland is a country which has honoured its writers and poets, so when someone says they wanted to be a writer, its not mocked or looked down upon.

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