Best Denise Mina Quotes
- Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. Imply
- I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very… Always Represented
- We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to… Air
- The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless… Definitive
- I love bleak things. Bleak
- In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the… Ballistics
- Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she… Bringing
- There are a lot of bottlenecks to getting published. Publishers are only one of them. Having the time is another one. Feeling entitled is another… Another One
- I think the class divide is going to change. I think a lot more working class people are going to get published. It is really… Change