Denise Mina Quotes

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• In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.
• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are…
• A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
• I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied…
• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
• If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was…
• My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
• I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.
• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
• I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people…
• I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the…
• In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did…
• Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
• I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.
• I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
• I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.
• I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
• Journalism is a Darwinian process.
• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and…
• None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

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