--- title: "1 Dressed Black Quotes By Ian Rankin" description: "1 Dressed Black quotes by Ian Rankin. Plus more from Ian Rankin and more Dressed Black sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/ian-rankin-7748_black_a-lot-of-writers-especially-crime-writer_2041928.jpg" --- > [A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to be seen as dark and slightly dangerous. But I'm not like that and I've realised that I don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/a-lot-of-writers-especially-crime-writers-have-an-image-that-we-think/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e60/ian-rankin-7748_black_a-lot-of-writers-especially-crime-writer_2041928.jpg) ## More by Ian Rankin > [You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/you-need-a-great-idea-but-then-you-ve-got-to-carry-it-through-if-you/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/in-1991-i-won-the-chandler-fulbright-prize-which-came-with-20-000-and/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/when-i-was-in-my-early-20s-and-still-at-uni-i-won-a-short-story/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [“Down Where the Drunkards Roll.” “How”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/down-where-the-drunkards-roll-how/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [“1446, that's when the foundations were laid. It took forty years to complete." "Sounds like some builders I know," Rebus said. "Can't you feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/1446-that-s-when-the-foundations-were-laid-it-took-forty-years-to/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/when-i-m-writing-i-won-t-know-whodunnit-until-maybe-two-thirds-of-the/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [“went to take a look at it. A plaque”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/went-to-take-a-look-at-it-a-plaque/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/my-mother-worked-in-a-school-canteen-then-worked-in-the-canteen-of-a/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/i-am-of-course-a-frustrated-rock-star-i-d-much-rather-be-a-rock-star/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/i-don-t-want-the-books-to-become-pr-exercises-for-the-police-i-want/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [“...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/despite-rumors-to-the-contrary-you-re-on-the-side-of-the-angels/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/rebus-was-eating-breakfast-in-the-canteen-and-wishing-there-was-more/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/i-would-have-loved-to-have-been-a-rock-n-roll-star-but-none-of-us-was/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [I don't hang out with cops.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/i-don-t-hang-out-with-cops/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) > [ \[About a tiresome colleague\]: He could bore for Scotland. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-rankin/about-a-tiresome-colleague-he-could-bore-for-scotland/) [Ian Rankin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-rankin/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dressed-black/ian-rankin/#itemlist", "name": "1 Dressed Black Quotes By Ian Rankin", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. 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