Val McDermid Quotes

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

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I honestly can't describe what goes on in my head when I'm out there. People who don't wrestle can't possibly understand it. When I'm in the ring, I don't feel any pain. I'm in another world out there.

Eddie Guerrero
- People
- World
- Pain
Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.

V. S. Naipaul
- Fun
- Think
- Know
You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski
- Life
- Up
- Time
Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.

Natasha Bedingfield
- You
- Mean
- Singing
For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.

Halsey
- People
- Writing
- Universe
I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

Gary Speed
- Think
- You
- Nation