One of the things that I'm really PROUD of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's COMING up and it's no COINCIDENCE that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all THREE of my novels BASICALLY are about how people ACT in a TIME of catastrophe. Do they GO to their best self or their worst self?

I do not think it is a coincidence that young people gravitated TOWARD POPULIST voices in the FRENCH ELECTION and that the two issue positions where Donald Trump and young voters seem to AGREE most - global engagement and trade - are rooted in populism.

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not LEAST as it vindicates PLOT as no other novel I can THINK of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral TRUTH.

The last three books are MUCH more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by ACCIDENT or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

It was an ODD coincidence that my career took off the same DECADE as having babies. I often WISHED it had been different, that I had my BIG career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.

Two months before I re-signed with WWE, I DECIDED just out of NOWHERE that I will START DIETING, to work on my BODY and train harder. I started focusing more. Two months later, WWE called me back to re-sign. That was not a coincidence but the universe telling me that I am ready.

The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and ITALY, and those are the two COUNTRIES where I also have the CLOSEST personal RELATIONSHIPS with my translators - I don't know WHETHER that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

I read a lot of POETRY, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the WORDS is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working TOGETHER, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a HUGE satisfaction.

You know, I've NEVER SEEN SOUTH PARK, just by COINCIDENCE.

I part-own a bookshop for some STRANGE coincidence of REASONS, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my LIFE, or own in my life. I do not know, it just FEELS GREAT.

For an OLD SPY and codebreaker like myself, nothing in the WORLD happens by coincidence.

Marvel books ALSO feed into the smaller PUBLISHERS and the FACT that this is happening in the same MONTH we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.