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 scared of what other people might do to me. Neil Cross Read Quote
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. Neil Cross Read Quote
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 Read Quote
What I love about Indiana Jones is he always bites off slightly more than he can chew. The guy he’s fighting is always slightly tougher than he is, but he just refuses to give up. And that’s what makes Indiana Jones a hero: not his superpowers, but his refusal to be beaten. Neil Cross Read Quote
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. Neil Cross Read Quote
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. Neil Cross Read Quote
