Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a l….

Words become, 'product', so that it is as though you'd bought a 'hand-cooked' packet of crisps; there are different makes, various flavours, but in t….

My motto is: write about anything you bloody well like; just make sure you do it effectively. We've all had all the emotions, the rest is research an….

When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun ….

In effective literature, ideas emerge from matter, not the other way around. So I squeeze the dirt for all it's worth and watch the sparks and diamon….

I no longer attempt to rationalise inexplicable phenomena; there are explanations, Horatio, but they are likely to be beyond our ken..

If you read many contemporary literary novels today, you may notice that regardless of the subject matter there's a 'sameness' about them, the way in….

Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known or met; the cas….

I don't buy the 'cynical voice'; I think we've had too much of that over the past few years; it's become deadening. I'm a passionate person, who is n….

I know people who've passed every creative writing course under the sun and who are more analytically intelligent and far better-read than I, but who….

In everything I write, I seek out something which I term, 'the music'. This is an energy centre which I cannot define and which lies beyond the realm….