I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.

I'm a writer, not a genre.

Siren voices tell me, 'You don't have to keep going on.' And then you think, 'I'm a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?' I don't know. I like being a writer.

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

I mean, I wouldn't pay more than a couple of quid to see me, and I'm me.