"Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish"

"Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do - not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad."

A morning without coffee is like sleep.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

I am a galley slave to pen and ink.