Writer

Yeah, I am pretty sure of myself.

I grew up in Birmingham, where they made useful things and made them well.

It's a tough case and the first time Reacher needs to recruit somebody to help him out. He uses a woman he knew in the army she's a fascinating character.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

We would all love to walk up to someone and shoot them in the head, there's no doubt about that. We're too civilised to admit it, but we're happy to read about it.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

I don't need validation, recognition or praise. What I need are facts and the facts are that one of my books gets sold, somewhere in the world, every second.

I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.

I love Italian food but that's too generic a term for what's available now: you have to narrow it down to Tuscan, Sicilian, and so on.

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job.

In principle if I could not have a home I wouldn't. But not having a home would be too difficult procedurally, going from hotel to hotel, the gap of three hours where you're hungry and tired.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

You mustn't fall in love with your own hero.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.