Writing is a solitary occupation..

Television is a young person's medium..

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation..

You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap….

I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,” I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know tha….

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die..

We don't build,' I said to my son, 'we just destroy..

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable)..

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd have made it work someh….

We all suffer from dreams.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations..

You know what circumcision is, Private?.

Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've n….

‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they ….

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a ….

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the ….

Research is a lifelong occupation so it's hard to factor it in, but I reckon most books take 5 months from start to finish..

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't..

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and pr….

The bards sing of love, they celebrate slaughter, they extol kings and flatter queens, but were I a poet I would write in praise of friendship..

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerlead….