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To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Caring
Not Caring
Spectacular
Attribute
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The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Catch-22
Fictional
Identified
Profoundly
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I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Theology
Degree
Greatly
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Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Dialogue
Direct
Intense
Lonely
Reader
Lonely Business
Reward
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I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Men And Women
Substitutes
Literary
Experience Women Men
Literary Fiction
Young Men
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I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Bristol
Complicated
Edinburgh
Mum
Brought
Introduced
Stepfather
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I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject to the law of diminishing returns.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Hate
Ideas
Law
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People often express surprise that I'm not a psychopath. But it's not about what I want to do to other people, it's that I'm scared of what other people might do to me.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Surprise
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It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Fake
Genre
Pompous
Nothing More Than
Literary
Literary Fiction
Perceived
Published
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No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Running
Holding On
Shadow
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I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Habitat
Novelists
Species
Publisher
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And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have been loyal to us, thus far, which is primarily our audience.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Loyal
Mean
People
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The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Bad Things
Chained
Complexity
Good People
Thematic
Good Always People
Bucket
Good Bad People
Good Bad Good People
Understandable
Vomit
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I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the audience response is something which I became aware of gradually.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Response
Stressful
Television
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What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that's what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Beaten
Bites
Hero
Indiana
Refusal
Chew
Indiana Jones
Refuses
Superpowers
Tougher
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'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Cases
Doctor Who
Graphic
Inspiration
Intense
Luther
Although
Doctor
Eventually
Figure
Images
Monster
Rendered
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I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show that preceded 'Doctor Who.' 'Doctor Who' borrowed quite a bit from 'Quatermass' and probably wouldn't have existed in anything like the form we recognise today if 'Quatermass' hadn't come before it.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Borrowed
Doctor Who
Fondness
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Recognise
Love Great Today
Doctor
Existed
Quite A Bit
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I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Epic
Finished
Science Fiction
Warrior
Novels
Radically
Title
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I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which was written to the best of my abilities. I panicked. I hesitated to finish the final chapter and went into withdrawal for three years. I decided to pick it up again after I went drinking with author Tim Binding.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Ability
Binding
Decided
Drinking
Realised
Withdrawal
Author
Mr
Chapter
Final
In-Between
Panicked
Pick
Quickly
Tim
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I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Aspect
Defeated
Despite
Driven
Fuel
Hero
Moral
Refuse
Heroes
Bow
Essentially
Evils
Furnace
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Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history
Neil Cross / Novelist
Important
Tears
Wind
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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience.
Neil Cross / Novelist
Men
Fake
Way
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