‘It gets both easier and harder at the same time. Easier in the sense that I know that I can get a book written, but harder in that I want to keep raising the bar with every book.
‘I remember as a kid that with some of my favourite authors, like Alistair MacLean, it seemed to me that as they got bigger and more successful they got lazier, and I never want that to happen, so I always push myself very hard to try and make each book better than the last one.’