If You Think It's Hard

I Vividly Remember Being 14. That Was The Age When I Started To Get Happy: I Started Being A Writer And Stopped Being A Loser.

Statues Lined The Stairs And Stood, Dotted Across The Roof. But They Had Been Brutalized By Time And The Weather. Some Were Missing Arms. Many Had No Faces. Once They Had Been Saints And Angels. Two Hundred Years Standing In London Had Turned Them Into Cripples.

Writing About Magic Is Harder Than Writing About Spies Because You're Dealing With Something That Doesn't Really Exist.

My Writing Has Always Been What You Call 'narrative Fiction' In The Sense That It's Got Very Strong Plots And Twists At The End.

Authors Have Odd Relationships With Their Creations They Owe Their Fame And Fortune To Their Characters But Feel Enslaved By Them.