There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

The thing that I'm most in love with is the thing that I'm writing at the moment.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.