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

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

I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.

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

Stephen King. Now I'm not crazy about him, but he's a great a writer.

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

No one likes my books except the public.