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I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

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I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

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Scotland is the only case in the world where the poor part of a territory wants to separate from the rich part. If independence came, one option is to keep the pound as its currency, so that all economic decisions will continue to be taken by the Bank of England.

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The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.

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As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

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There is always a temptation to take things for granted, to get lazy, and to presume that the reader knows more than they do.

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I think the context of an hour-long drama gives breathing space that you don't get in a film.

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Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.

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I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: February 22nd, 1956

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