3 Quotes & Sayings By Neil Cross

Neil Cross is a critically acclaimed writer and director, known for his work on the BBC series, Luther, and the feature film, The Woman in Black. He has written and directed many short films and feature-length dramas for the BBC and Channel 4. He is currently executive producer of the BBC series, Luther.

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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. 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. 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
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Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history Neil Cross