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Portrait of Reginald Hill

Reginald Hill

(1936–2012) Writer United Kingdom

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Reginald Hill was a writer from the United Kingdom, best known for Deadheads.

Quick Facts About Reginald Hill

Born: April 3, 1936
Died: January 12, 2012
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Writer
Notable works: Deadheads
Known for: Death’s Jest-Book, Midnight Fugue, The Death of Dalziel (UK), A Cure for All Disease, Pictures of Perfection

About Reginald Hill

Reginald Charles Hill FRSL was an English crime writer and the winner in 1995 of the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1978.

Awards & Honors

Cartier Diamond Dagger Macavity Awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Q688819 Barry Award for Best Novel

Quotes by Reginald Hill

“Hope is a black beetle. Stamp on it hard as you liked, it still scuttled on”

Beetle

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“The pain of ignorance can end. The pain of knowledge is forever”

Ignorance

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“His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just…

Miracles

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“So what to do? . . . She shook her head impatiently. Choice is a largely delusional concept, her tutor used to…

Choice

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“For the first time, she felt she’d laid a glove on Doll Trapp. ‘Well, you really are full of surprises,’ she said.…

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“One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever.”

Clever

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“He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.”

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Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be…

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