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Mark Billingham Quotes

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Mark Billingham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: July 2, 1961

Topics

Good Comedy You Crime Club Just

When do you know it's time to say, 'OK, that's it?' That is the most difficult part of any decision like that because you don't want to throw the 'R' word out there. I've mentioned it a couple times, but not in the sense that I'm doing it. That word is very fragile. We'll see.

Time Decision Doing You Know Want

In general, I don't really think too much about pacing, myself. You kind of look at each script and what each script demands.

Myself Think You Look Too Much Kind

To work to make the lives or others better is the most rewarding work of all.

Work Better Others Make Most Lives

My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.

Life History Job I Am People Story

What surprised me most while writing 'The Monogram Murders' was that everything I needed seemed to arrive in my head exactly when I needed it.

Me Writing Everything Head Most

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

Me Random Voice Back Find Three

I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

Robert Downey, Jr.

Walk Look Now Hand Out Like

I think the most important thing people can do to save our planet and the human race is to empower women!

Women People Think Important Empower

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.

Family Father Money Lazy Poor Empty

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

Roberta Williams

End Weird Doing You Know Addiction

I'm trying to talk to my kids in Japanese, because I'm not a pro English speaker. My wife speaks to them in English. That's her first language. I don't want my kids to feel the same as me when I was studying English. It was so frustrating.

Wife Me Language Feel Trying Want

The pace of increases in labor compensation provides another possible indicator, albeit an imperfect one, of the degree of labor market slack.

Labor Possible Degree Compensation

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