Journalism Is A Darwinian Process.

I Love Mikhail Bulgakov. He Is Very Original And Takes The Story To Unexpected Places. I Didn't Realise Political Writing Could Be So Funny.

Even If People Do Wrong, We're Social Animals, So What Can We Do About Stopping Them Doing The Same Things In Future? Saying People Are 'bad' Or 'evil' Is Just An Unwillingness To Engage; An Unwillingness To Try To Empathise. That Sanctimonious Attitude Doesn't Help Anyone

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.

Crime Is A Very Hard Genre To Feminise. If You Have A Female Protagonist She Is Going To Be Looking After Her Mum When She Gets Older; She Is Going To Be Worried About Her Brother And Sister; She Will Be Making A Living While Bringing Up Kids.

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.