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With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Benevolent Best Characters Clique Dominated Ear Exceptions Few Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Middle-Class Notable Portray Tin Upper Who Working-Class

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Because of England's lack of social mobility, unless they make truly heroic efforts, writers who are privately educated and then go on to Oxbridge or an institution like the BBC will generally embarrass themselves when they attempt to have a go at working- or lower middle-class characters.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Attempt Because Characters Educated Efforts Embarrass England Generally Go Heroic Institution Lack Like Lower Make Middle-Class Mobility Privately Social Themselves Then Truly Unless Who Will Working Writers Bbc

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Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Literature Noir Proletariat

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In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Become Come Could Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Find Had Just Life Little May Misfortune Novel Place Section Speaks Talks Way Where You Your Yours

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Every publisher or agent I've ever met told me the same thing - that Irish readers don't want to read about the bad old days of the Troubles; neither do the English and Americans - they only want to read about the Ireland of The Quiet Man, when red-haired widows are riding bicycles and everyone else is on a horse.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Agent American Bad Days Else English Ever Every Everyone Everyone Else Horse Ireland Irish Man Me Met Neither Old Old Days Only Publisher Quiet Read Readers Riding Same Same Thing Thing Troubles Want Widows

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I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.

~Adrian Mckinty

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I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Always Characters Construction Did Down Eccentric Funny Funny Things Gone Guard Had Jobs Lot Many Meeting New New York Plan Postman Saying Security Teacher Things Were Which Worker Wrote York

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I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Been Believer Lot Never Order Out Slowly Stuff Thing Throw Tinker Word Words Write I Write

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I think if you grow up in a culture where the army is out on the street sighting you with rifles, it has to have some kind of psychological impact.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Army Culture Grow Grow Up Impact Kind Out Psychological Some Street Think Up Where You I Think

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I studied law at Warwick University, then philosophy at Oxford. I met my wife Leah there. She is American, so I followed her to New York.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: American Followed Her Law Met New New York Oxford Philosophy She Studied Then University Wife York

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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