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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.

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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.

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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

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Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

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In my flat in Chicago, I've got this big room with an office in the corner and a balcony so I can watch people go by.

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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.

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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.

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People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this kind of MBA guy who's spotted a gap in the market and knows how to create a product for it. It's flattering, but I've not got that much of a gameplan.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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