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If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

I just want to work, and learn from people I respect and admire.

Work is at the core of human dignity.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.

My job is to focus on bringing characters to life in an honest and personal way.

I want to be the joy to people through my work.

My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.

I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.