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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
~ Val McDermid
Alternatives
Decent
Decent People
Diminish
Lot
Part
People
Qualities
Reality
Reality TV
Some
Take
TV
Who
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
~ Val McDermid
Allowed
Back
Career
Day
Develop
Forgiving
Got
I Think
Make
Mistakes
More
Place
Public
Sense
Space
Started
Still
Think
Time
Time And Space
Way
Were
World
Writer
You
Your
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
~ Val McDermid
Aware
Complete
Creatures
Feel
Fife
Freak
Growing
Growing Up
Lesbians
Like
Up
Were
You
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
~ Val McDermid
Accountant
Am
Bags
Despair
I Am
Plastic
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I came from a working-class family, but I was supported by a grant system and had my fees paid, so I came out of Oxford with a debt of something like £200.
~ Val McDermid
Came
Debt
Family
Fees
Grant
Had
I Came
Like
Out
Oxford
Paid
Something
Supported
System
Working-Class
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I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
~ Val McDermid
Did
Joni Mitchell
Long
Long Time
Mitchell
Quite
Quite A Long Time
Time
Want
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
~ Val McDermid
Books
Formed
Fully
Many
Ourselves
Think
Us
World
Writing
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
~ Val McDermid
Am
Audience
Broken
Down
Glad
I Am
Lesbian
Limited
Myself
Out
Scottish
Sit
Think
Write
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
~ Val McDermid
Big
Big House
Both
Doing
Exactly
House
Manchester
Need
Only
Ostentatious
Room
South
Time
Vernacular
You
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I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
~ Val McDermid
Books
Dear
Easier
Gets
Harder
Many
Ruth
Said
She
Written
You
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I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
~ Val McDermid
Bible
Books
Copy
Developed
Discovered
Grandparents
Holidays
House
Later
Libraries
Lot
Mysteries
Only
Sales
School
Second-Hand
Spent
Taste
Then
Time
Were
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I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.
~ Val McDermid
Austen
Builds
Couple
Endgame
Gets
I Think
Jane
Jane Austen
Places
Quickly
She
Suspense
Things
Think
Those
Too
Well
Will
Working
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I think that crime is a good vehicle for looking at society in general because the nature of the crime novel means that you draw on a wide group of social possibilities.
~ Val McDermid
Because
Crime
Draw
General
Good
Group
I Think
Looking
Means
Nature
Novel
Possibilities
Social
Society
Think
Vehicle
Wide
You
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
~ Val McDermid
Always
Books
Demanded
Feeling
Like
Most
Off
Start
Time
Wanted
Way
Write
Writers
Writing
Written
You
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
~ Val McDermid
Along
Boy
Came
Changed
Come
Did
Feelings
Gave
Generation
Had
Internet
Men
Next
Next Generation
Out
Platform
Previous
Suddenly
Them
Then
Things
Thinking
Voice
Were
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I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
~ Val McDermid
Attempt
Attempting
Bring
Highest
Highest Level
Jane
Level
Make
My Own
Own
Prose
Sparkle
Suicidal
Will
Would
Would-Be
Write
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I'd like to be more spontaneous.
~ Val McDermid
Like
More
Spontaneous
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
~ Val McDermid
Any
Get
Goodbye
List
Make
Prizes
You
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
~ Val McDermid
1980s
1990s
Academy
Also
Became
Being
Breach
Concerned
Crime
Fiction
Got
Happened
How
Less
Literary
Literary Fiction
Live
Lives
Lot
Me
Metropolitan
Novel
One Of The Things
People
Point
Seems
Stepped
Stopped
Things
Time
Very
Where
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
~ Val McDermid
Also
Began
Bit
Books
Changed
Ever
Get
How
How Much
Much
Unimaginable
Would
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