My level of excitement is above cricket proportions

In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone

Your vile and bitter diatribes only serve to show how vile and bitter you must be.

Bon Jovi is most definitely the key to how I am able to write so much in a day

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control.

The people in your life should always be more important than the work you do.

It's 1am, I have fiction to write!

It is the prerogative of women to make men wait.

I am beginning to worry that my speech is becoming a rather incomprehensible mixture of a Victorian woman, an Australian Beach Bum and a Laddish city boy

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

One of my favourite things about being an author is waking up knowing that there are worlds just waiting to be discovered and created.

It was a dark, dismal afternoon, like they all seem to bethese days, when I got this call. I could hear the rainbattering the windowpane of my office when the phone rang.

So I am not at all interested in this whole 'she-shed' thing, I love my 'man-cave' - after all, cave is much more sturdy than a shed and there is always a chance that it's the entrance to Batman's secret hideout.

In the constant pursuit of perfection, junk food will always be a rather painful stumbling block