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Denise Mina Quotes

Scottish - Writer | 1966 -

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.

Children Fun Writing World Hard Two

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

History Crime Deserve Fiction Social

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

Friends Gay Getting Married Get Till

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

Process Journalism Darwinian

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

Time Opinion Strong Person Position

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

Truth Enough Know Readers Imply

In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

Heart Lucky Just Waitress

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.

Men School People Warrior Down Even

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!

Work Politics Job Law You Know

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

Love Negative Think Flaws Human Us

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.

Family Food People Go Nice Need

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.

Voice Story Logic Way Real Over

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