Denise Mina Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

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  Children, Book, Reading

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

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  Character, Trying

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Nice, Air, People

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• Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone

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  Attitude, Animal, People

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• A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

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  Men, Thinking, Purpose

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• Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.

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  Clever, Book, Writing

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• I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

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  Thinking, Different, Film

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

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  Sophisticated, Enough, Reader

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