Neil Cross

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes…

— Neil Cross

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

I don't want to repeat myself. I hate the idea of coasting and of recycling the same ideas. Then, you're just subject…

— Neil Cross

And by the right thing, I mean that whatever step we take next, the first criteria we should consider is the people…

— Neil Cross

I am very interested in theology. In fact, my first degree was in theology, so it's something that interests me greatly.

— Neil Cross

“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…

— Neil Cross

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…

— Neil Cross

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…

— Neil Cross

The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I…

— Neil Cross

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a…

— Neil Cross

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils…

— Neil Cross

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

— Neil Cross

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it…

— Neil Cross

Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue…

— Neil Cross

'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…

— Neil Cross

“I have lived a long life, and I have seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War.…

— Neil Cross

“What's the golden rule of social networking?" Luther hangs up his coat. "Don't do it?”

— Neil Cross

I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show…

— Neil Cross

I wrote 'Mr. In-Between' very quickly when I was about 23. I wrote the penultimate chapter, then realised I'd done something which…

— Neil Cross

What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he's fighting is…

— Neil Cross

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we…

— Neil Cross

To kind of go through life not caring is a spectacular attribute. It's one I wish I had.

— Neil Cross

I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of…

— Neil Cross

I find broadcast intensely stressful, to the extent that perversely, I've never seen anything I've written actually broadcast on television. So, the…

— Neil Cross

I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and…

— Neil Cross