Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.