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1. "I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws." ~ Denise Mina
2. "It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility." ~ Denise Mina
3. "People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries." ~ Denise Mina
4. "Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone." ~ Denise Mina
5. "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
6. "Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve." ~ Denise Mina
7. "I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy." ~ Denise Mina
8. "I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing." ~ Denise Mina
9. "I love bleak things." ~ Denise Mina
10. "I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny." ~ Denise Mina
11. "I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form." ~ Denise Mina
12. "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
13. "I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can." ~ Denise Mina
14. "In my heart I'm just a lucky waitress." ~ Denise Mina
15. "Journalism is a Darwinian process." ~ Denise Mina
16. "None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read." ~ Denise Mina
17. "Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that." ~ Denise Mina
18. "There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels." ~ Denise Mina
19. "To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person's intellect. It becomes your default position." ~ Denise Mina
20. "Usually when I'm trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live." ~ Denise Mina
21. "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
22. "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
23. "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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My secret love, Billy Colbert, had to make up the same test.Afterward, we left the chemistry lab together. 'Well, it was long,' Billy said, 'but it wasn't hard.''I thought it was long *and* hard,' I replied.'Oh, cut it out, Rachel,' Billy remonstrated. 'If there's one thing I can't stand, it's brains who pretend they suffer just as much as the rest of us.''I'm not a brain in chemistry,' I protested. 'If I get good grades in science or math, it's because I work. You're the brain in chemistry. I hate that word, brain, anyway. Everyone has a brain, and they're all about the same size, even a moron's."
Author: Barbara Cohen

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