I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.