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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.

English culture is highly literary-based.

Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.

In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.

For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.

The writer studies literature, not the world.

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

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

If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.