The first page sells this book. The last page sells your next book.

I'm the most translated writer in the world, behind Lenin, Tolstoy, Gorki and Jules Verne. And they're all dead.

The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.

Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am.

My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.