David Lean

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles.

Don't make jokes about food.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.