You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.