"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."

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Source : "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

Denise Mina

#Wings Quotes #Guy Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.”
“Arsenal's width comes from wide areas”

Source : "'Who'll win the league? It's a coin toss between three of them!' MirrorFootball's gaffes of 2013 - part two" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. January 03, 2014.
“Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to the dreamer that the world of his longing made real is no longer that world at all.”
“I hope that people will be held accountable, even if accountability just means naming it and letting the citizens of the country know where you're at. I think that has a huge impact on the way people think.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Slamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned without express written permission.”
“If there's any lesson I've learned in the last five years, it's don't be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open,”

Source : "An Early Halloween Fright for Wall St.: Elizabeth Warren for Treasury Secretary?" by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. October 22, 2014.
“Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us.”

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