Crime Fiction Is The Fiction

There's A Real Emphasis On Being Witty In Scotland, Even In Crime Novels.

I Hate It When I'm Reading A Comic, And The Dialogue Looks Like Stickers Stuck On Top To Explain What's Going On. For Me The Best Is When Your Eye Goes In A Certain Point And Moves Through The Composition And Then Springs Out On The Dialogue, Or Gets Confused In The Image And Then Goes To The Dialogue For An Explanation.

In Prose, Leaps Of Logic Can Be Made While The Protagonist Thinks About Things And Arrives At Conclusions. Even With Voiceover, There's No Real Way Of Having An Inner Voice Without It Taking Over The Entire Story.

Because I Write A Book A Year, I Always Want To Do One Other Project Every Year That's Stimulating In A Different Way. It Means You Can Be Working But Not Using Up Your Prose Juice, You Know?

My Upbringing Was Middle-class But My Parents' Families Were Both Working-class So I Had This Odd Combination Of Working-class Background But In A Privileged Position.