Generally, I read nonfiction. Theres very little fiction that I enjoy enough to spend my time reading. I am generally a nonfiction guy.

It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

The minute you become a leader of a country, you go into a very small club. You join that sort of pantheon of other world leaders.

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