Music is an important part of my writing process.
It’s all good, apart from the raisins.
Life’s not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying ‘I’m sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?’ But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we’ve learned how to cope.
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They’re not highly paid.
Death is just nature’s way of making room for the less experienced.
I like dogs. Dogs don’t judge people.
Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.
Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity.
To read is human, to review is divine.
There’s a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on – you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It’s a military hierarchy. They do what they’re told. There’s no bickering.
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a ‘puff’ for a book I truly love.
Almost every officer is going to put their life on the line at some point in their career.
The world is changing and people don’t like change.
The history of the human race doesn’t make happy reading, does it? I’ve seen a lot of sadness during my time, but I’ve seen seen a lot of things that have kept my faith in humanity alive too. If there were no bad things in the world, we’d have nothing to measure the good against, would we? The light can only shine in darkness.
He had read somewhere that when a man marries a woman, he hopes she will stay the same forever, but when a woman marries a man, her agenda is to change him.
The best form of revenge is success.
I believe thinking about being old or even dying eradicates that fear. Fear can control you or you can control it; it’s a conscious decision. A life lived with fear doesn’t sound that enjoyable to me.
Failure is something you experience on your way to success – unless you’re a skydiver.
The first step to achieving all your goals is getting out of bed. Coffee and toast are optional.