104 Quotes by Michael Robotham

You're not supposed to have a favourite book - it's like children.

All of my novels are seeded in real life events, and 'The Wreckage' is no different.

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up.

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

I'm very fortunate to be doing what I dreamed of, what I love. So few people get that opportunity. So while people continue liking what I write, I'm going to happily continue.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

I normally sleep very well, but when I do have bad dreams, they always involve my children.

I often joke that I could write 'War and Peace' and make it sound like Geri Halliwell wrote it.