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

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

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.

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

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

If the public likes you, you're good.

Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture.