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The idea of just sitting at home on Facebook worries me. I think we should all get out more.

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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.

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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

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It's been a good thing for me to try and understand America.

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I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

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Television has become the government, priest, psychotherapist - the legitimiser of our egos.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 27th, 1961

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