Denise Mina Quotes

• I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

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  Thinking, Negative, Flaws

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• To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

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  Strong, Opinion, Default

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• Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

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  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• La ficción criminal es la ficción de la historia social. Las sociedades tienen los crímenes que se merecen.

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  Fiction, Crime, Social

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• In my heart Im just a lucky waitress.

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  Heart, Lucky, My Heart

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• None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.

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  Gente, Quiere, Sabe

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• Journalism is a Darwinian process.

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  Journalism, Process

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• Había leído tantas novelas policíacas de derechas en las que se encuentran las pruebas y se dispara al malo, que pensé que debía haber otro enfoque.

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  Wings, Guy, Fiction

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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• I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

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  Feet, Fiction, Crime

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• In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.

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  Art, Brother, Dad

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• I always wanted to work at Take A Break magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote Garnethill because I didn't get that job!

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  Jobs, Law, Degrees

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• La gente se interesa por la novela negra cuando está bastante alejada del crimen. Los habitantes de Darfur no leen novelas policíacas.

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  Reading, Murder Mysteries, People

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• I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.

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  Children, Fun, Writing

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• En Escocia se hace mucho hincapié en el ingenio, incluso en las novelas policíacas.

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  Witty, Real, Crime Novels

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• I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.

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  Writing, Political, Stories

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• Yo procedía de un entorno muy tradicional y me beneficié enormemente del feminismo. Me sentí privilegiada al ir a la universidad y hacer un doctorado. La mayoría de la gente de mi entorno no puede hacer eso.

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  People, Feminism, Phds

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• I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

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  Gay, Married, Terrified

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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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• 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?

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  Libro, Media, Escritura

  "‘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.

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  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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• 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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  Niños, Libro, Lectura

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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.

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  Clever, Book, Writing

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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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• 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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