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Ian Rankin Quotes - Page 2

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Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.

Writing, Fiction, Scottish

"Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

It seemed to him a very Edinburgh thing. Welcoming, but not very.

Edinburgh, Welcome

"Exit Music". Book by Ian Rankin, 2010.

I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.

Football, Cutting, Men

"Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

Scotland, Bores, Colleagues

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

Thinking, Sparks, Ruth

"Paperback Q&A: Ian Rankin on The Impossible Dead". www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2012.

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.

Dad, Reading, Home

"Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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