14 Quotes by Allan Guthrie

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.

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.

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.

Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.

There is a dark side to Allan Guthrie, but only at the weekends.

I took an MA course in creative writing a couple of years back, and I was definitely in the bottom of the class.

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.

I like to walk when I can. Otherwise, it's the bus - while we still have them.

I managed to fit most of the writing to evenings and weekends, and my wife has been very supportive.