Denise Mina

In the forensic science course I took at university they used photographs of dead bodies. For ballistics they showed us a guy lying on the floor, and his head had burst.

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These are some quotes by Scottish author Denise Mina Writer, who was born in 1966.

Quotes by Denise Mina

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Denise Mina

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I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.

Denise Mina

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Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future? Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise. That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone.

Denise Mina

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It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

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