I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham.

Sixteen years as a freelance features journalist taught me that neither the absence of 'the Muse' nor the presence of 'the block' should be allowed to hinder the orderly progress of a book.

I want to live in a city where the future is being mapped out.

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.