I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

Sometimes limbo is a tolerable place to be stuck.

In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling.

We keep a journal to entrap that collection of selves that forms us, the individual human being.

I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.