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There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why... →
I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.
I've been fascinated by the idea that evil is the absence of empathy.
I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.
Anyone who wants bookstores to survive is portrayed as a Luddite who goes around smashing up Kindles.
As I get older I tend to rail against the world more and more.
I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S.... →
What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a series and not fiddling about too much. You do... →
The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.
If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for connections of things.