"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

#Feet Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Crime Quotes

“David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .”
“Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.”

Source : Interview with Michael Connett, thenhf.com. October 4, 2005.
“Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame a flatterer.”
“Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.”
“To give counsel, as well as to take it, is a feature of true friendship.”
“I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.”

Source : Source: observer.com
“And if I have to die trying, I will get out of here.”
“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.”

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