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"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
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"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."

"I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was."

"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"

"When I got off him, I spat the blood that was swamping my mouth in to his face, I looked down at him and it really looked like he was dying- shit! The ambulance arrived in about a minute and they got an oxygen mask straight on him and I could see the life draining out of him. You see, this is the problem; we are only human and flesh and blood."

"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."

"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"

"I could be accused of glamourising crime, the favorite question on all journalists' lips whenever they ask about anyone writing about such things. The answer to that must be an emphatic 'Yes'. We've come to expect our icons of the criminal world to be larger than life, better than anyone else at foiling the final capture scene. We all love a good thriller ...."
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