The thing is about me – some people think it is a good thing, some people think it is a bad thing – is that I never do anything not to succeed at it. When I decided that I wanted to be an MP I knew I was going to become an MP. I didn’t have any doubt. Once I had made the decision that it was going to happen, it was going to happen. And when I heard the agent say, “I think there is something good here and you could write books,” I didn’t think: “I am going to write books.” I thought: “I am going to write really good books.” The Four Streets, which was my debut novel, sold over 300,000 copies. I never expected to do anything less. That sounds terribly arrogant, doesn’t it, but I don’t write books for them not to sell well.