If the reader needs a dictionary to read your book then the dictionary may turn out to be a more interesting read.

Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to ease those words onto the page.

My job takes up many daylight hours, it wakes me in the still of night and fills my head with ghosts and monsters but I love it, telling stories is what I was born to do.

It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.