I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.

Ethics is the new competitive environment

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

What is central to business is the joy of creating.

If you like Harlan Coben, you’ll love Linwood Barclay.

We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.

Hey, I write fiction. I just make this stuff up, unless I get my hands on some good juicy truth. You know the kind I'm talking about ... that stranger-than variety.

Words are dead, until action brings them life.

If life’s big puzzle makes you feel broken and shattered, we hope that our book will help you look at the spaces between each piece. You’ll find the answers here.

Light refused increases darkness.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

Velveeta: you can eat it - or wax your car with it!

Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.

Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs.

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.