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We were living in Denver, Colorado, and I was teaching high school. I asked the kids to write a short story, so I thought I should write some myself.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Asked Colorado Denver High High School Kids Living Myself School Short Short Story Should Some Story Teaching Thought Were Write

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When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Australia Decided Live Moved Off Try Writing

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After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: After Apply Big Big Thing England Just School Scotland Secondary Stay Then Thing

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On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Belfast Born Going Ireland Little Located Northern Northern Ireland Page Said Say Then Used War Where Wikipedia I Was Born

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I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Degree Did Firm Instead Join Law Law Firm London Master Miserable Oxford Philosophy Supposed Time Whole

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The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: April Brutal Denver End October Winters

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I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Book Character Characters Darkest Down Either Establish Form Freedom Give Idea Just Like Love Part Point Redemption Second Take Them Then Third Total Trilogy You I Love

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A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Book Day Different Editor Even Goes Likes Look Me Oh Place Specific You

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I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Always Been Cover David Express Fanatic First First One Orient Peter Read Secret Ten

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I think the poetry that came out of Belfast, and especially the Queen's University set, in the 1970s and '80s - you know, Paul Muldoon and Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Ciaran Carson - that was probably the finest body of work since the Gaelic renaissance, up there with the work of Yeats and Synge and Lady Gregory.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Belfast Body Came Finest Know Lady Out Paul Poetry Queen Renaissance Set Since Think University Up Work You I Think 1970S

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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