I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Being the only writer on a successful show is very rewarding.

Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you just saved my life. The Doctor: Believe me... It was an accident.

It's a funny thing about stories. It doesn't feel like you make them up, more like you find them. You type and type and you know you haven't got it yet, because somewhere out there, there's that perfect thing -- the unexpected ending that was always going to happen. That place you've always been heading for, but never expected to go.

So is this how it works Doctor? You never interfere with the affairs of other peoples or planets, unless there are children crying?

The Doctor...is embarrassingly human for an alien.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.