Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

One likes to think one grows as a writer as one ages, else all you get is an 'old' young writer. Beyond that is the changing landscape of the universe and the stories I choose to tell.

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.

As a kid, I sat transfixed watching Ray Harryhausen's '7th Voyage of Sinbad.'

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

I'm not a huge fan of prequels and sequels and the cynical rush to make money on the back of books by other writers who are now dead.