Scottish - Writer | April 28, 1960 -
I grew up in a family that was working-class, which taught me to be careful with money.
Ian Rankin
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My mother worked in a school canteen - then worked in the canteen of a chicken factory. Every Friday, the pay packet money would be allocated to cover bills.
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I have a strong work ethic, yet I'm incredibly lazy as well. The problem with being a writer is that everything you do can be called research. Sitting in the pub is research. Reading the newspaper can be research.
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My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool.
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When I was in my early 20s and still at uni, I won a short-story competition: £200 was the prize.
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In 1991, I won the Chandler Fulbright Prize, which came with $20,000 and the stipulation of spending six months in the U.S.
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I go to Canada at least every two years.
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'Jekyll and Hyde' I read in high school. I was expecting a Hollywood-type horror story and couldn't believe it when I got this very complex narrative from all these different points of view.
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I would have loved to have been a rock n' roll star. But none of us was musical, and none of us had any instruments.
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I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
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I'm not qualified for anything. I've had lots of little jobs, like picking grapes and being a tax man. I can't imagine not writing, because I've done it since I was five or six. Maybe I'd work in academia. That's always what the plan was.
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In real life, writers tend to be quite boring, but in our books, we're having exciting adventures all the time.
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