Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial.
I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both onli...
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they're best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish - we're famous for travelling in search of adventure.
Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.
Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.
She wishes her grandmother had not been so protective, and that she understood better what passes between a man and woman. As it is, she simply enjoys the feelings and wonders if they are what lightni...
This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.
Edinburgh is alive with words.
I can't bear literary snobbery.
I have no problem in moving a date one way or another or coming up with a subplot that gets my characters in (or out) of a fix more rambunctiously than the extant records show.
Molly Bloom is simply the most sensuous woman in literature.
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
I'm a professional writer and I consider it part of my job to publicise my work and these days part of that job is done online.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?
There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.
I believe the era of the militant lady is back.