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To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position.

~Denise Mina

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Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

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Topics: Enough Imply Know Readers Sophisticated Truth

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In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress.

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Topics: Heart Just Lucky Waitress

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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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Topics: Accents Always Art Art History Because Brother Class Dad Did Ever Forget Her History Journalist Just Law Middle-Class No-One People She Speak Thinks Trilogy Working Working Class

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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire.

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Topics: Actually Always Am Bit Boarding Boarding School Class Down Even Fond Men Middle-Class People School Very Warrior Whereas

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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!

~Denise Mina

Topics: After Always Applied Because Bit Break Degree Done Even Get Interview Job Just Know Law Little Little Bit Magazine Only Politics Stories Take Wanted Work Wrote You

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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Air Also Big Big Family Clear Confrontational Cultural Dinners Family Food Go Here Hundreds Maybe Miles Need Nice Payoff People Really Scottish Them Thing Traditional Traditional Family Traveling

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In prose, leaps of logic can be made while the protagonist thinks about things and arrives at conclusions. Even with voiceover, there's no real way of having an inner voice without it taking over the entire story.

~Denise Mina

Topics: About Conclusions Entire Even Having Inner Inner Voice Leaps Logic Made Over Prose Protagonist Real Story Taking Things Thinks Voice Voiceover Way While Without

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Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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