Martin Compston

I'm a lucky boy. Never wanted for anything; new tracksuit, new pair of football boots. I had a happy childhood.

I've two huge German shepherds who are my boys. They're called Biscuit and Buster, and I love them to bits.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

All the books I was reading as a teenager were about individuals having adventures. So I thought that was what writers were supposed to do: to go out on the road.