Mark Billingham Quotes

I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.

Mark Billingham

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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

Hanna Rosin
- Women
- Think
- Dirty
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge
- Taxes
- Legal
- Collecting
As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.

Aaron Rodgers
- People
- Up
- Trying
A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

Patrick deWitt
- Life
- Good
- Why
Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.

Paloma Faith
- Everything
- Build
- Cinema
Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

Tammy Bruce
- People
- Forget
- Legal