David Hewson
David Hewson
David Hewsonis a contemporary British author of mystery novels. His series of mysteries, featuring police officers In Rome, led by the young detective and art lover Nic Costa, began with A Season for the Dead, has now been contracted to run to at least nine instalments by British, American, European and Asian publishers. The author's debut novel, Shanghai Thunder, was published by Robert Hale, in the United Kingdom, in 1986. Almost all copies of the book were sent to libraries,...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth9 January 1953
The only sheets I'll ever long for are my own.
It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.
A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.
In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
Talking to Lee Child and discovering, from his chapter in The Chopin Manuscript, that he's even more of an audio geek than I am (as his chapter in Chopin proves).
Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.