Ian Rankin Quotes

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

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• It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.

  

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• I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.

  

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• I think the fossil fuel industry is genuinely freaked out by the combination of the price collapse, the divestment movement, and that fact that renewable energy is getting so cheap so fast.

  

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• Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.

  

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• Most things I get hired on, I get hired because I improvise something funny, or they just think I look weird.

  

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• I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

  

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• I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

  

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• Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

  

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• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  

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• If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

  

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• I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

  

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• Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.

  

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• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

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• The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor.

  

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• I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.

  

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• It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

  

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• I constantly think I'll be found out any second. Some of the crazy stuff that goes through your head. Once you've moved on from the scene, that's it: it's going in the telly and there's nowt you can do about it! It's really scary.

  

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• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

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• The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

  

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• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

  

  Ian Rankin
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