They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just a matter of joining the dots.

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.

If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.

This wasn't food - it was what food became if it had been good and gone to food heaven.