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

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.

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

The wise communicate in subtle ways.

One cannot get through life without pain.... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

What would you do if money was no object?

I'd like to briefly state the accomplishment that we expect from a photographer. He must make the person being photographed forget that he has eaten from the tree of knowledge.

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.

Gray Davis got some good news this week: the Clintons are out here in California campaigning for him. Actually, Hillary is campaigning for Davis, Bill is out here for Larry Flynt.

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

It is a sure mark of grace to desire more.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.