Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.

The life of the professional writer - like that of any freelance, whether she be a plumber or a podiatrist - is predicated on willpower. Without it there simply wouldn't be any remuneration, period.

The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very repetitive. It seems quite inimical to the dreamy state out of which fiction comes which seems so much less causally repetitive than the way one works on computers.

Vaughn's vision is older, wiser and harder than Ritchie's.

I think the fundamental apprehension is that the city's an organism of some form, rather than being governed from above.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.