I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.

I think it's common sense to shy away from the erotic. Perhaps this grand experiment, which started with Lady Chatterley's Lover, of seeing what you can write and how you can write about sex, has reached a certain weary terminus with Fifty Shades of Grey.

We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.