Denise Mina Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Denise Mina quotes and sayings page 4 (writer). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 49 we have.
“Journalism is a Darwinian process.”
“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.”
“None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.”
“Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.”
“Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live.”
“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 think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.”
“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.”
“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!”
“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 law, but no-one ever thinks they're middle-class - they're just working class because they speak with accents.”
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