There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

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

I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

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

I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

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?

In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.