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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?

~Denise Mina

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I hate it when I'm reading a comic, and the dialogue looks like stickers stuck on top to explain what's going on. For me the best is when your eye goes in a certain point and moves through the composition and then springs out on the dialogue, or gets confused in the image and then goes to the dialogue for an explanation.

~Denise Mina

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I love bleak things.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Bleak Love Things I Love

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I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

~Denise Mina

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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

~Denise Mina

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I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged going to university and doing a PhD. Most people of my background don't get to do that.

~Denise Mina

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Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

~Denise Mina

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My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

~Denise Mina

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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.

~Denise Mina

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With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to do something a bit more holistic, so there were lots of different points of view, and I wanted to look at aspects of crime that you don't tend to look at.

~Denise Mina

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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