Denise Mina Quotes - Page 2

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• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

  Denise Mina

  Clever, Book, Writing

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• Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?

  Denise Mina

  Book, Mean, Writing

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  Denise Mina

  Shoes, Laughing, Way

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

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  Real, Thinking, Voice

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• I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

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  School, Warrior, Men

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• There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.

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  Children, Book, Reading

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• Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

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  Character, Trying

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

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  Nice, Air, People

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