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"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."

"Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

"I have a very strong sense that we only know where we are by looking clearly at where we've come from."

"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

"I didn't want to give up my job and join the ranks of the Doing Fuck All brigade no matter how much money I had in the bank."

"For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it."

"It's ridiculous " a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer in Italy and it's a scandal. A chap does it and no one bats an eyelid."

"When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London."

"If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking."

"This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press."
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