A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

A good writer is always a people watcher.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

I'm such a coward that unless I get a good writer, I don't want to make a picture.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.