Defiance through compliance..

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a lo….

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English..

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone d….

Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath..

The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil..

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good..

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you..

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment..

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the….

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look..

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day..

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth..

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take not….

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is u….

Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, a….

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations..

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer..

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception..

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic..

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all….