Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.
I think that Brighton, for a crime writer, is almost like a character.
There are people who can achieve huge success in life, while adding a bit of fun and a splash of colour to this increasingly grey world.
. . . I don't have concrete plans for the future. I just think of success and keep a successful attitude. Success is 99 percent preparation. If you set yourself up for winning, rarely will you fail.
A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'TimesSunday Times,' the 'GuardianObserver,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.
The crime genre's always been regarded very well by the literary end of the book world, whereas horror, although it had that spell in the late eighties, by and large, it's sort of ghetto-ized, and considered to be exploited literature.
Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.
I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.
He was on me before my brain processed the fact that he was coming for me.
I'm beholding to nobody, I've spent you know, tens and tens of millions of dollars on the campaign.
It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.