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A lot of my characters are anti-heroes that became heroes.

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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.

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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.

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Everybody that writes has their own area of inquiry. And mine has always been kind of, why is it that when life can be so hard and difficult, we compound it by self-sabotage, doing terrible things? That's always been my main area of inquiry, and it does lead you to dark places.

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I come up with a blurb at the beginning, but the book will always be completely different by the time it's finished. They say, 'Where's the book you were going to write?' And I say, 'Forget about it. It doesn't exist.'

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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.

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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.

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How can you be inspired by Cameron and Miliband? These guys are just drabness personified.

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Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.

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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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