Peter James West

“The Walker towered over him like a half-built skyscraper with a bad attitude. Its bulbous silver head was home to so many weapons that Nick couldn't even count them. He couldn't even name half of them.”

“Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.”

“If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.”

“Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.”

“Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.”

“If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?”

“From the dark forest that bordered the soft ploughed fields, came a low cry that did not belong to any animal. It was accompanied by the sound of branches bending and snapping, and the splintering of wood as trees were crushed or toppled onto their sides.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.”

“You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.”

“Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.”

“If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.”