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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people who have… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
“Okay then. That's what I'll do. I'll tell you a story. Can you hear them? All these people who lived in terror of you… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
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,… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
