- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't need to put that on. People will buy the books whether they see a photo of you dressed in black or not.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
- Nov 07, 2020
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020