Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if… — 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 and your judgment. All these people whose ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed themselves to you. Can you hear them singing? Oh you like to think you're a god. But you're not a god. You're just a parasite.… — Neil Cross Copy Share
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, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in… — Neil Cross Copy Share
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 essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the… — Neil Cross Copy Share
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
