Just lock myself in a room, stop answering emails, stop answering the phone and I come out with something.

If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The media has to be critical - it has to scrutinize it, it has to call out things.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

You write people as human beings first and then the gender specific stuff second.

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.