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Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.

Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort!

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

I think printed fiction is what women read.

My mother says that after I first visited the home of the man I later married, she knew it was serious when I told her, 'Mum, he has more books than me!' So, books are at the very heart of my life.