I’m really quite normal. My imagination has some serious kinks in it, that’s all. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it’s the bus – while we still have them. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
I’m teetotal and a vegetarian, which is sometimes a surprise to people who meet me expecting me to resemble one of the characters in my books. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
I try not to think about writers who came before me when I’m writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland – and Edinburgh in particular – has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn’t be able to get as much as a sentence written. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
Maybe it’s the buildings, maybe it’s the weather, but you can see it affects us – that Scottish gallows humour; our tendency towards bleakness, to look at things in a negative way. Those definitely come out in my writing. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
Some authors are quite happy – and have the time – to do it all themselves, which is great. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
Writing books that people want to read is helpful – my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
A number of people have read ‘Two-Way Split’ and made certain assumptions about what the author’s like, and I’m highly disappointing to them. I don’t drink, I don’t eat meat; that’s very disappointing for a hard-boiled writer. Allan Guthrie Read Quote
