I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I’d always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.

The stronger a brand’s point of view, the greater its voltage.
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Stronger Views Voltage
I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I’m a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I’m slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.
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Country Mouths Together
Sci-fi is very much an American genre. Space and the exploration of space is something so closely associated with America.
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Country Exploration Space
Just because there’s a trillion places to put an idea doesn’t mean you don’t need an idea in the first place
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Ideas Mean Needs
The best content is the means, not the end.
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Best Contest End Mean
I’m not from a particularly sci-fi background. I’m not anti sci-fi at all, but I’ve never been known as a sci-fi writer and, suddenly, I was creating a flagship BBC sci-fi show, which is terrifying sometimes.
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Background Creating Known Sometimes
I’m not into politics. I’m into survival.
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Live Politics Survival
I was a novelist before I was a TV screenwriter. Actually, as a kid, I think I’d always wanted to be a writer, but never thought that I would be one.
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Kids Novelist Thinking

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