I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in.

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it.

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.