There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Loosers want it but only through the easy way. If action taking were like reading a story book, loosers would only love to open the picture pages

The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.

Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

But did thee feel the earth move?

I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.

There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks

Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.

If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.

But woe awaits a country when She sees the tears of bearded men.