Human beings are interested in the human condition.
I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad.
I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation.
I let people off the hook too easily.
The last thing you know about yourself is your effect.
I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond.
There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.
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.
What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it.
