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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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 …

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi

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…

- Suhayl Saadi