I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
The world was healing itself.
It shouldn’t be too hard to spot, Daniels said. It’s bloody huge. And if it goes bang, you’ll hear it ten miles away.
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to...
I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
I love to kill fish,' Sayle went on. 'But when I saw this specimen of , I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.''It's ninety-nine per cent water. It has no brain, no...
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle’s War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander –
Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. All right, he said. You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t want to work with me. Well, that’s fine. Because I don’t want to work with you eithe...
Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle’s War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander – British TV would disappe...
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for peop...