Denise Mina Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

  Denise Mina

  Fiction, Crime, Social

• I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

  Denise Mina

  Feet, Fiction, Crime

• I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

  Denise Mina

  Wings, Guy, Fiction

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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

  Denise Mina

  Reading, Murder Mysteries, People

• There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

  Denise Mina

  Witty, Real, Crime Novels

• 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 to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

  Denise Mina

  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

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