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

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

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

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

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

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

Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?