I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.
You will remember this when all else fades, this moment, here, together, by this well. There will be certain days, and certain nights, you’ll feel my presence near you, hear my voice. You’ll think you have imagined it and yet, inside you, you will catch an answering cry. On April evenings, when the rain has ceased, your heart will shake, you’ll weep for nothing, pine for what’s not there. For you, this life will never be enough, there will forever be an emptiness, where once the god was all in all in you.
The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.
Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
. . . being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one more clout with publishers and more notoriety among journalists. The effect on one's writing, however, is nil - otherwise, one would be in deep trouble.
The Infinite has to be a relative concept. Go any distance: an infinite space means that there is more to be explored.
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.
Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.