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I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

~Denise Mina

Topics: About Anyone Anyone Else Anything Aware Baffled Because Cheeky Confrontational Else Ever Every Goes Had Moody Much Nobody Office Politics Says Temper Them Unsaid Very Worked You

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In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

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I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

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The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

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It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.

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Topics: Because Been Britain Certainly City Cut Europe Glasgow Hard Here High Highest Imprisonment Know Maybe Most Off People Prison Rate Small Someone Very Will You

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

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Topics: Character Establish Find Live Out Try Trying Where

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If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Ask Finding Firm Glasgow Interview Job Law Law Firm Out Religion School Used Way Were You

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I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

~Denise Mina

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

~Denise Mina

Topics: Closer Different Film Form Graphic Graphic Novels Novels Prose Really Than Think Which I Think

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Because I write prose, when I sat down to write a comic, it feels like my brain's working differently. It actually feels like different bits of my head are springing into action.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Action Actually Because Bits Brain Comic Different Differently Down Feels Head Like Prose Sat Working Write I Write

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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