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 levels. We don't have open sewers and infant mortality rates at fifty percent but in economic terms we're getting to a level of disparity we haven't seen for a couple of hundred years. And we're getting… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share
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 Genus had been distributed equitably, across society, it could have been nirvana, a great world where people don't fear the diseases that we die from. The problems that arrive are more to do with resource hording… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share
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
