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Ian Rankin has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…
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War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.
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From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The…
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed…
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I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures…
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this;…
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I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
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A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up with. You've got to…
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I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a…
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I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel…
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History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
— George Santayana
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I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.
— Leif Garrett
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Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape…
— Anne Robinson
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I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way…
— Herta Muller
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Journalists have always written that my mum said that I punched a hole through my cot when I was three years old.…
— Frank Bruno
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
— Tea Obreht
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half,…
— Ian Rankin
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I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not…
— Nancy Reagan
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I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.
— Joan Armatrading
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