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Book Quotes by Ian Rankin
- I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
- 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 in my head…
- 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…
- I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big,…
- I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class,…
- My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money…
- No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and…
- Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the…
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