It’s all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility. Denise Mina Read Quote
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. Denise Mina Read Quote
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. Denise Mina Read Quote
In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents. Denise Mina Read Quote
The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river. Denise Mina Read Quote
It’s very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it’s such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who’s been to prison. Denise Mina Read Quote
Usually when I’m trying to establish character, I try and find out where they live. Denise Mina Read Quote
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. Denise Mina Read Quote
