The joy of painting lies precisely in the challenge of memory and the challenge of translation from the lived experience to the two-dimensional or th….

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all..

My most intimate secrets? Well, if I told you those they wouldn't be secrets now, would they? Seriously though I don't have too many secrets. I'm a v….

Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rar….

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come….

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it ain….

It's not just that toil allows the appearance of spontaneity. It allows the actuality of spontaneity..

Because I'm such a creative person, and I've always got my nose in a book, I suppose it was only a matter of time before non-fiction turned into fict….

Photos represent primarily a seductive but deleterious short cut..

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye..

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things….

I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing can’t be like any other author’s really..

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you….

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in….

I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if ….

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just ….

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the gener….

It was relatively easy to write 'The Cave of Lost Souls', though, because it came to me one night in a dream. I remember waking up and having this id….

I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world….

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went throug….

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live qu….