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I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.

~Allan Guthrie

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There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends.

~Allan Guthrie

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I'm teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books.

~Allan Guthrie

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I'm really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that's all.

~Allan Guthrie

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I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

~Allan Guthrie

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Maybe it's the buildings, maybe it's the weather, but you can see it affects us - that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing.

~Allan Guthrie

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I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

~Allan Guthrie

Topics: Back Bottom Class Couple Course Creative Creative Writing Definitely Ma Took Writing Years

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Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.

~Allan Guthrie

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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.

~Allan Guthrie

Topics: Book Books Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Helpful Most Only People Police Popular Read Successful Very Want Writing

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A number of people have read 'Two-Way Split' and made certain assumptions about what the author's like, and I'm highly disappointing to them. I don't drink, I don't eat meat; that's very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer.

~Allan Guthrie

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Author

Born: June 5th, 1965

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