I'm reasonably good at talking onstage, but actually holding court in a pub is all to do with power dynamics which I don't think has anything to do with fiction.

When I'm writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas.

I don't have a day job, so I read any time of day.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything.

I love sentences. I love characters. But most of all, perhaps, I love to work on plot, and that may be where my natural gifts lie, if I have any. I like to think hard about plots in TV shows and films.

You couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate at least something. Indeed, perhaps you couldn’t truly love anything if you didn’t hate almost everything.