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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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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the…
— Tasha Alexander
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Alafair Burke is one of the finest young crime writers working today.
— Lisa Unger
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And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make…
— Nic Pizzolatto
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I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.
— Jo Nesbo
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My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started…
— Jo Nesbo
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the…
— Laura Lippman
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole…
— Camilla Lackberg
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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…
— Ian Rankin
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Cellphones have, if nothing else, turned TV crime writers into lazy sloths.
— Douglas Coupland
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
— Garry Disher
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