His eyes are wild, psychotic slits that bat-dance in your soul looking for good things to crush or bad elements to identify with.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

There's no one way of telling a story or looking at reality, so I think any device is up for grabs as long as it fits in with the tone.

Are you asking me or telling me?

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state, I can make my own choices." But I've got things to look forward to, and places to go and if that'd been me there forty years ago, when I was a young kid in Muirhouse, it might've been a different story.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.