Scottish - Novelist | September 27, 1961 -
I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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We've become used to processing images that are part of the non-linear narrative theory. I think there's a thinner line between fantasy and normality. People spend much more time in their own heads now. There's so much to conform to, so many influences coming at you.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.
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One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.
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Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.
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Holy Joy were a cult '80s band led by the wonderful songwriting genius that is Johny Brown.
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I would never have written 'Trainspotting' if it hadn't been for this album, 'Raw Power,' and 'Metallic K.O.'
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'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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