I'm slightly pessimistic about human nature, about how close it's possible to bond with those around you. Dying alone is a deep fear for most people. I'm not scared of death but I'm scared of dying scared. Maybe everything else… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
“The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the shark is… — jonathan trigell Copy Share Image
Social mobility decreased under Labour and under the current government it is reversing. The differences between the poorest and richest are returning to Victorian… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I'm a hardened atheist but I feel that we have an inbuilt need for God. If you eradicate religion, you end up with something… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
Holman's world is a worst case scenario but it's healthy to examine extreme possibilities. If the technology that is used for genetic enrichment in… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
You are supposed to look at the unimproved and think about the way that we dismiss so-called 'chavs' and certain immigrant classes that are… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I come from a privileged background but I worked a lot of winter seasons in the Alps and I've done lots of mundane summer… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We have a… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes.… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
