"Right from the very beginning, I knew I……" — Ian Rankin
"Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction."
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29 Quotes by Ian Rankin
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will…
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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…
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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…
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I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or…
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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…
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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
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