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.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.

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

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.