I'm a fisherman. I've always loved fishing. I grew up fishing for trout.
I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.
I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word.
I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.
I don't think anyone has ever succeeded in putting Ian Fleming's James Bond up on the screen. The closest in my opinion is Pierce Brosnan.
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.
People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'
I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.
Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.
I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
Broadcast TV is still the mothership and it will be for the foreseeable future. Audiences may be declining slightly but revenues are going up and profits are going up.
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.
