- Nov 07, 2020
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.
- Juice
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Certain Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bleak things.
- Feeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.
- Head
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.
- Odd
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.
- Crime Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020