Comics don’t work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It’s hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job. Denise Mina Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. Denise Mina Read Quote
To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person’s intellect. It becomes your default position. Denise Mina Read Quote
Novelisation doesn’t imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that. Denise Mina Read Quote
I’m always represented as a bit of a class warrior – a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I’m actually very fond of men and am middle-class. I even went to boarding school in Perthshire. Denise Mina Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws. Denise Mina Read Quote
