Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

We live in an age in which the imagination of the novelist is helpless against what he knows he is going to read in tomorrow's newspaper.

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

I work most days and if you work most days and you get at least a page done a day, then at the end of the year you have 365. So the pages accumulate and then I publish the books.

When he [Joe Lewis] was asked upon his retirement about his long career, Joe sweetly summed it up in just ten words. 'I did the best I could with what I had'.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

The pleasure isn't in owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you.