Books Quote by Ian Rankin

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

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

When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.

— Ian Rankin

“Down Where the Drunkards Roll.” “How”

— Ian Rankin

“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

“went to take a look at it. A plaque”

— Ian Rankin

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

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

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

“...despite rumors to the contrary, you're on the side of the angels. (...) Whether you like it or not.”

— Ian Rankin

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

I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any…

— Ian Rankin