British comic book writer Andy Diggle talks about his impatience as an author and why he'd never write a series for superhero Flash

The service at swanky hotels make Andy Diggle self-conscious. "They do everything for you. I can pour my own coffee, I'm a grown-up!" he complains, seated at a Bandra five-star's coffee shop. The author is in Mumbai for the British Council's LitSutra Programme, a discussion about the detective and the criminal mind. Andy has not done much crime writing. Instead, he has been involved with action adventures, although he is currently working on Rat Catcher, a Vertigo comic in which the FBI is chasing an assassin who's not quite from this world.u00a0u00a0



Will it always be comics or do you plan to write a novel some day?
I am toying with the idea of a novel. But I'm not very patient; I have the attention span of a three year-old. In a comic, time is space. It's a very tight, controlled medium. With a novel, I'd be lost in its openness.u00a0