"You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean,……" — Ian Rankin
"You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are."
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29 Quotes by Ian Rankin
Ian Rankin has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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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…
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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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More Day Quotes
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you…
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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