I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

Every book should have a romance.

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.