“My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.”
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I believe that, by and large, people are good and everybody you meet is more likely to surprise you in a positive way than in a negative way.
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.
My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.
I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.