The Stories I Create Are Never As

Justice Doesn't Only Mean That The People Who Commit Crime Are Punished. It Also Means That We Can Never Give Up Seeking The Truth.

I Can Still Remember. I Was Ill, And I Was Seven, And My Father Didn't Want Me To Just Read Children's Books. He Came With Conan Doyle. I Tried, And I Liked It. I Think The First I Read Was 'the Sign Of The Four'; 'study In Scarlet' Was The Next One. Then I Guess I Stayed Home A Few Extra Days From School To Read.

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.

For Me Oliver Twist Is A Political Novel. It Is A Furious Critique Of The Treatment Of Orphans And Poor Children Who Were Forced To Spend Their Early Lives In Ghastly Institutions.

Many Words Will Be Written On The Wind And The Sand, Or End Up In Some Obscure Digital Vault. But The Storytelling Will Go On Until The Last Human Being Stops Listening. Then We Can Send The Great Chronicle Of Humanity Out Into The Endless Universe.