John Mortimer

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.