For Me Oliver Twist Is

I Can Still Remember The Miraculous Feeling Of Writing A Sentence, Then More Sentences, Telling A Story. The First Thing I Wrote Was A One-page Summary Of Robinson Crusoe And I Am So Sorry I Do Not Have It Any More; It Was At That Moment I Became An Author.

I'm Not Very Much Of A Reader Really, Because I Find Much Of It Very Bad, Very Uninteresting, Very Speculative.

When Someone Asks Me To List The 10 Best Novels Ever Written, I Always Refuse To Answer.

Our Exile Organizations Have Been Our Way Of Replacing The Cities And Villages We Have Lost.

I Work In An Old Tradition That Goes Back To The Ancient Greeks. You Hold A Mirror To Crime To See What's Happening In Society. I Could Never Write A Crime Story Just For The Sake Of It, Because I Always Want To Talk About Certain Things In Society.