Top 32 Quotes by Simon Toyne

'The Searcher,' as the title suggests, is about someone in search of something, and I have always loved quest stories and so was drawn to writing one myself.

I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.

I'm certainly not the first author to tiptoe into the conspiratorial, religious-tinged territory, but - and I hate to break this to the faithful - neither is Dan Brown.

The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.

I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

If, after five years, I hadn't had anything published, I was just going to forget it and go back to TV full-time until I retired or they put me out to pasture.