Beginning Quote by Ian Rankin Download Open image “Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.” — Ian Rankin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beginning Fiction Right Scottish Wanted Writing
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“A considerable debt is owed to these, and to many other books. The aim, however, with Scotland: The Autobiography, has been to gather a… — Rosemary Goring Copy Share Image
I grew up on British fiction, and I write perhaps more directly out of that tradition. — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
“Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize. — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“1446, that's when the foundations were laid. It took forty years to complete." "Sounds like some builders I know," Rebus said. "Can't you feel… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop.… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.” — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I… — Ben Schwartz Copy Share Image
People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The only vocal training I had was playing with a tape recorder as a kid, and you know, doing the beginning of the 'Lone… — Michael Buffer Copy Share Image
January is the beginning of a new year for us in the Western world. Let us give to God what belongs to him: the… — Paula White Copy Share Image
In the beginning, if you look at those early label albums of the Chicks, we didn't write all that much. We had an A&R… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
When God made the world, all things began with him. Life, death, it all began when he said so. That includes you and me… — Manae Poet Of Carisis Copy Share Image
