"I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats."

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Source : "Ian Rankin, author - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

Ian Rankin

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“Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.”
“Whoever desires is always poor.”
“Now that healthcare is guaranteed, I'm frying everything I eat. Fried food and cigarettes.”
“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”
“Got that gun?â€ Peter says to Tobias. â€œNo,â€ says Tobias, â€œI figured I would shoot the bullets out of my nostrils, so I left it upstairs.”
“If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me..”
“Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.”
“I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”

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