I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
Music is an important part of my writing process.
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.