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.
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going t… - Denise Mina
Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going t…
- Denise Mina
None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read. - Denise Mina
None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny. - Denise Mina
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did la… - Denise Mina
In the 'Garnethill' trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O'Donnell's dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did la…
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position. - Denise Mina
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. - Denise Mina
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
Journalism is a Darwinian process. - Denise Mina
Journalism is a Darwinian process.
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws. - Denise Mina
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
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 … - Denise Mina
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 …
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