I love that I can work from home and take my kids to school every day.

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• Simon Toyne:

  One of the things that made me try writing novels was I could take time off to be with the kids. Th

• Simon Toyne:

  I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my I

• Simon Toyne:

  'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by

• Simon Toyne:

  Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant struc

• Simon Toyne:

  I love Westerns. They're a unique creation of American mythology.

• Simon Toyne:

  If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain eleme

• Simon Toyne:

  I wrote 'The Searcher' because I love westerns, and they've fallen out of fashion.

• Simon Toyne:

  I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter wh

• Simon Toyne:

  The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The S

• Simon Toyne:

  All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.