Scottish - Writer | April 28, 1960 -
I'm not Rebus. We're not the same. I don't even think he'd like me if we met. He'd think I was a wishy-washy liberal.
Ian Rankin
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The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.
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People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.
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When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll be half through and not know your conclusion. You worry one of these days the ending won't come. I'll be left with only two-thirds of a novel.
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Writers always think their greatest work is just ahead of them.
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Punk gave you a kind of chutzpah, so even trying to be a writer, I just thought, 'Well, I'm going to send poems to 'Radio Times,' short stories to the 'Observer,' just have a go.
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Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.
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