Neil Cross Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“'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 the week and is eventually successful.”

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

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

“Writing a novel is an intense and lonely business, but you have the reward at the end of a very direct dialogue between you and the reader.”

“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 natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.”

“I was writing novels at eight. It was a science fiction epic, which went by the unimprovable title of 'Another Kind of Warrior.' I'd write it beginning to end, but when I'd finished it, I was another year older. The quality of writing and thought changed radically, so I'd start it again. I re-wrote that same book until I was 16.”