Steve Bisley

I've got a good memory. Sometimes it's a curse. I remember what the light was like in the room the first time I heard Van Morrison's 'Moondance.'

Writing a novel is easier than writing a memoir; you are not constrained by the truth.

I am a great observer of things, and I do it all the time. I store stuff; I use it as an actor; that sort of recall, of emotional memory and images of things, just tastes of things.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

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.