Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Gerald Seymour

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

I don't tend to redraft, I will try to tidy it up, but basically I feel what I write down first has got the impetus, it may be clumsy, it may be repetitive, but a good editor can take that out. That first writing bit is the best thing you will do.

I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.

We all hope that TV will bring something added to the book - not just an audience - it will bring an interpretation and skills that you may not have as a writer.

I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

I am one of the world's dreadful technophobes. I was on the internet, but it's broken down and I've unplugged it.

Very rarely does anyone say that the TV is better than the book.

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.