I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of… — 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
