Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.

Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.

That's why they become politicians.