I've tried very HARD and I've NEVER found any resemblance between the people I KNOW and the people in my NOVELS.

I'd LIKE to THINK that my FILMS are personal enough to exist without hearkening BACK to their respective novels.

I didn't read much of anything till I was 15, EXCEPT Alistair MacLean and MICHAEL Moorcock - the sword and sorcery NOVELS - when I was about 13 or 14.

I NEVER EVEN had the TIME to READ NOVELS.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no ROADS, writes no novels and sex CERTAINLY GIVES no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who WRITES NOVELS I have NEVER been ABLE to READ.

When I meet children at book signings, they'll BRING me photos of when I first met them many YEARS ago when they were READING my picture books, and now they're telling me how MUCH they enjoy my novels.

Violence is inevitable in CRIME novels, but there are many different ways to TELL a story. I USE my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let READERS WITNESS them at first hand.

All of my novels are seeded in REAL LIFE events, and 'The WRECKAGE' is no different.

I PLAN to LIVE to be 98, so I'll be the GUY at Dundas and Yonge flogging a BOX of mouldy NOVELS.

I've READ SHORT stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a LOT of HELIUM.

I WRITE NOVELS because there is SOMETHING I don't UNDERSTAND in REALITY.

The RISE of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the GREAT novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of LOVE and the joys of life, MAY be called the THIRD Renaissance.

After 20 years, a million written words, and NINE rejected NOVELS, I FINALLY landed a BOOK contract.