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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that reflects the one most people live in. Gay people are just one aspect of that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The condition of rage is one in which I find myself starting my day - once I see the news headlines.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be more spontaneous.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
- Forensic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The contemporary crime novel is, at its best, a novel of character. That's where the suspense comes from.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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- Nov 07, 2020