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

To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

- 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.

- Denise Mina

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

- 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…

- Denise Mina

I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

- Denise Mina

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

- Denise Mina

Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.

- Denise Mina