There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.

I think if you live in a country, basically you share the dominant values of a country although you may disagree on issues all the time.