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It's ironic that the growth of Scottish nationalism has precipitated in the English the sort of hand-wringing the Scots have always done over who they are.
It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
It's really odd that I've got this kind of sullen reputation - I never saw myself that way.
It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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.
Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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.
People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.
People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
People think if you're working class, there has to be some fascist element underneath.
Politicians are so... detested; they don't actually walk amongst people now.
Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
So many people have become divorced from the system, criminalised by their lifestyle.
Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.
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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