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" I felt alienated by the experience and decided to stay away from corporate employment. "

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" It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. "

" I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets. "

" So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. "

" I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach. "

" The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. "

" I need a stimulating environment to write because my books are driven at 100 miles per hour at a time. "

" I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic, and partly unsympathetic, which wasn't easy. "

" We know we need civilization and laws and procedures, but isn't it frustrating? Wouldn't it be great if we could just do what we needed to do? "

" There is nothing wrong with just telling the story. "

" In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired. "

" It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem. "

" Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. "

" For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader. "

" I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live. "

" I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. "

" I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it. "

" The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure. "

" We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it. "

" All of us write wish fulfillment. "

" I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. "

" I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.' "

" I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time. "

" I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence. "

" I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. "

" I'm not really into gourmet food; I'm the kind of guy who just stops by a place that looks good rather than heading for the restaurant of the moment. "

" I do a little fact checking now and then. Other than that its impact is simply that email has revolutionized communication for me, and my website has built up a community of readers, which is a lot of fun. "

" Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself. "

" I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second. "

" A calm environment is for after I finish work. "

" British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography. "