- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will say that anyone who supports Scottish independence should go to Athens. Because nothing works. It is a disaster. It is a ruined, dirty place where people do not have money or future prospects. The day one after independence, Scotland would be worse.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
- Lazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write by hand and then transfer the text onto the computer. I like the process of actually having a pen in my hand. Things flow more easily for me that way.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020