I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.

Clearly the secret of happiness...is a variation on the general principle of banging your head against a wall, and then stopping.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Just because we think of wolves (or the wilderness, or another race) as wild and fierce, doesn't mean there isn't another side to them.

Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.

I love research, and in fact it's liberating because you have to create your own world. No one can say "I've just got back from the 1860s, and you got it wrong." Anyway, it's fiction.

I suppose the short chapters and differing narrative points of view are quite "cinematic" devices, which came very naturally to me.