I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.

Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.

People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.

People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get.

Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.

The fear of silence is a fear everyone should overcome.