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We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.

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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!

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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.

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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'

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'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.

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Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.

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The cultural war of words has actually been won by the most dispossessed people in the Western world, the urban American blacks.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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