"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

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“There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.”
“The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.”
“I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.”
“Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.”

Source : Baldassare Castiglione (2012). “The Book of the Courtier”, p.32, Courier Corporation
“Anything that I can do with my voice thats good, Ill try to do.”
“Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.”
“I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.”
“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”

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