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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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Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.
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My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter…
— Terry Brooks
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Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people.
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The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing…
— Will Oldham
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I read ' Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were.…
— Andrew Motion
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When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President…
— Jack Ruby
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Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be
— Unknown Author
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Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun…
— Willie Aames
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Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'…
— Jane Birkin
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Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.
— Mercedes McCambridge
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
— Francine Pascal
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