“I got a pommel in my eye. A pommel is the end of a sword - not the sha...” — Tom Burke Quote

“I got a pommel in my eye. A pommel is the end of a sword - not the sharp end, the other end. It wasn't actually a sword fight. I was rugby tackling somebody but we hadn't rehearsed with all the kit on so suddenly there's a whole other part of the equation and that did really hurt.”

“When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son.”

“I think 'The Musketeers' is probably the Dumas novel people are most familiar with, or if not that, it's 'The Count Of Monte Cristo'. I've always been a big fan of Dumas because, on the one hand, he writes a lot about revenge, but he also writes about the cost of it to the revenger - I'd always had an interest in that.”

“Many training programs and often schools focus on just a skill or a kind of work competency. That's only half the equation.”

“Imagining what a character will do in a given situation - it's like an equation, and working it out is a marathon rather than a sprint.”

“Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.”