The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.
An Englishman once said that he found it easier to be a member of a club than of the human race because the bylaws were shorter, and he knew all the members personally. That sounds about right.
Well, no one ever said the truth would make you happy – only free.
We’re all pilgrims on the same journey but some pilgrims have better road maps.
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.
Most of my books are about contemporary subjects, and the world changes so fast that I’m lucky when events haven’t overtaken the book I’m writing at the moment.
How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.
I try to use short sentences, short paragraphs and short chapters to keep the reader’s interest.
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it’s done in handwriting.
I have no plans to use the Internet as the main subject of a novel.
It’s good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my generation, I was very much caught up in the Cold War, and books and movies about espionage.