Denise Mina

“He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming…

— Denise Mina

Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future?…

— Denise Mina

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her…

— Denise Mina

In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and…

— Denise Mina

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith…

— Denise Mina

“Bout a month ago. She came in Boxing Day but I put her out. She was begging people, not even tapping, but…

— Denise Mina

None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

— Denise Mina

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

— Denise Mina

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't…

— Denise Mina

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

— Denise Mina

I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must…

— Denise Mina

I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published.…

— Denise Mina

“If Morrow worked with herself she'd try and sit a few desks away.”

— Denise Mina

“Maureen didn’t know what to say so she told the truth. “You’re frightening me,” she shouted. Inness stopped still. “I didn’t mean…

— Denise Mina

I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers…

— Denise Mina

There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling…

— Denise Mina

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

— Denise Mina

I love bleak things.

— Denise Mina

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be…

— Denise Mina

“January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter”

— Denise Mina

We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we…

— Denise Mina

I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really…

— Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says…

— Denise Mina

Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels…

— Denise Mina