A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

I had, like any other young novelist, started out by believing the difficult thing was to get published and that, once you managed that, well, your financial problems were over. I discovered, like any other serious novelist, that actually they had only just begun.

Each man creates god in his own image.

And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

The process hasn't changed, but the writer has developed. I still get up every morning and go to work.