Denise Mina Quotes

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.

Usually When I'm Trying To Establish Character, I Try And Find Out Where They Live.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

I Came From This Very Traditional Background And I Benefited Hugely From Feminism. I Felt Privileged Going To University And Doing A Phd. Most People Of My Background Don't Get To Do That.

I'm Terrified To Get Married. I'm Not Getting Married Till My Gay Friends Can.

My Upbringing Was Middle-class But My Parents' Families Were Both Working-class So I Had This Odd Combination Of Working-class Background But In A Privileged Position.

If You Went For A Job Interview In A Glasgow Law Firm, They Used To Ask You What School You Went To. And That Was A Way Of Finding Out What Religion You Were.

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!