I’ve had a stammer since I was three, and it’s only in my thirties that I began to get a handle on it, so I’ve never been able to speak as fast as I wanted. It was action and adventure and comedy and horror and most of all it was crime, so I could have the rapid-fire dialogue that I’ve always loved. I put in every wild and crazy idea I could think of, made it a mish-mash of half a dozen genres and just kept going. The second film I wrote had been made with a lot of creative compromises, so when I got the idea for Skulduggery – and I realised it was a book and not a screenplay – I launched everything I had into it.
I was a scripwriter but I wanted to do something different. If you do nice things in this life, just to be rewarded in the next one, doesn’t that kind of negate the niceness of it all? Wouldn’t you be a better person if you did the nice thing just to do the nice thing? But the one thing I find puzzling is how mercenary religion makes it. You know, the being nice to people, helping people, being tolerant, that kinda stuff. I like the old-fashioned Christian values, though. Sometimes it’s about people doing nice things and sometimes it’s all about power and greed.
I’ve got nothing to say about religion that hasn’t already been said by smarter people than I. And if I look around at this real and natural world and I don’t believe in magic, then can I believe there was magic here 100 years ago? Five hundred years ago? Two thousand years ago? And if I can’t believe that there was magic in this real and natural world 2,000 years ago, how can I believe in a magical god? How can anyone? It’s just. Where do you stand on the whole god thing now? There was no actual faith or worship involved. My sisters kept going to Mass, but really it was just to see who else was there. Then, when I was about 12, my folks realised they were pretty much atheist, and I gladly left it all behind. Prayers in school, communion, confirmation, church every Sunday. New Humanist: Describe your religious upbringingīest-selling author Derek Landy with his skeleton sleuth, Skulduggery Pleasantĭerek Landy: I was raised Catholic.
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