It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket..

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction..

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, bu….

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when….

From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug m….

You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are..

I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say….

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore ….

A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dang….

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary e….