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I feel that form determines how readers read a book and how they judge it.

I am truly bored with 99 per cent of conventional novels. I do think it's a somewhat desiccated form.

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.

Henry Kissinger once told me he was very concerned about the Internet's impact on people's ability to absorb information in a concentrated way, because we've become accustomed to looking up something, getting a snippet and being satisfied with that - as opposed to reading through and considering a weighty tome that goes into great depth.

While the web is very much the first draft of history, a rough-cut, it still has to be good journalism, well-sourced, reliable. Clearly, the printed form is going to have more effort put into it, going to be more reflective and relevant.

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

I seemed to have been born reading.