The best restaurants are always down the side streets.
Writing is just building a new world – one character, one place, one maniac at a time.
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
I’m an observer. I am fascinated by people and how their minds work (and, of course, my own). Why we are the way we are, why we do the things we do – and that interest drives my writing. I was a physicist before fiction claimed my soul, so I’m ...
The greatest barrier to self-understanding is our fear of knowing the truth within ourselves, but when we do understand ourselves, we greatly enhance what we are capable of.
I enjoy creating characters, telling lies, having freedom, being myself, challenging perspectives, arguing, creating something everlasting, following in hero footsteps, making readers cry or laugh and occasionally scaring the dinner out of people.
One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.
Most of the people I worked with in my old job were pretty cool. We used to go out drinking after lights out and the less pleasant members of staff would be the topic of our pub discussions. We had a laugh. Nothing too damning. No one called anyone a...
I’ve always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
Fiction genres are stranger than fiction, as the saying goes.
I love to pull at people’s heart strings, but I’m no Nicholas Sparks.
Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
I want to question societal norms, encourage people to think in new ways.
You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
I am driven not for myself, but for others.
People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
