People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

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

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.