I do not do free e-books. I occasionally like to eat that thing you people call "food".
When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
Blank walls are a shared canvas and we're all artists.
When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out.
The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.
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.
Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.
I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.
Books are readable drugs.
Self-belief is not self-centred. We can only fight effectively for others if we already believe in ourselves.
People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.
Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.
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.
I became a physicist to understand the world, then I became a writer to try and change it.
Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.
Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.
You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.