With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.

I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

I always was going to be a writer. The other jobs were just to keep me in food. Though I enjoyed the archaeology.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

It's not because it's difficult that we don't try. It's because we don't try, it's difficult.