Mark Billingham
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CATHERINE FISHER CAMERON DALLAS PAT NIXON ANN NOCENTI ERIC ROTH EARL WEAVER ELLEN GILCHRIST The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you c... TATIANA DE ROSNAY It's overwhelming, pages and pages of things you don't really understand as a lay person or just as ... BILL BIXBY JASON AARON GREG RUCKA ETHAN CANIN My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who&#... AIDAN QUINN I'm always writing from some difficult place and seeing how the character survives... or doesn&#... ADAM SILVERA I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He's a very new character in the MCU. I think he... JACOB BATALON CAITLIN MORAN RON WHITE ROGER STONE DEAN KOONTZ We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as... LINDA LAVIN WALTER CRONKITE I don't think of the characters as being good or bad because that doesn't help me as a write... BRYAN COGMAN There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, s... NANCY KRESS RICHARD CARMONA RONALD REAGAN I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a... ZACHARY QUINTO He can play the one, two or three, and we've talked about the four or five, ... You can find a bunch... CARROLL DAWSON The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money. CATHERINE KEENER R. A. SALVATORE D. H. LAWRENCE Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn'... ELENA ANAYA I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses... LAURA BUSH Well, I love Pink Floyd, so I wouldn't be offended by it. I only intentionally robbed them three... JOSH SILVER The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is o... DAN SCANLON ED KOCH To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&... HANNAH TOINTON JARED LETO Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, o... RUTGER HAUER I laugh when Floyd Mayweather says that if he went back in time he would beat us all. I'll tell ... ROBERTO DURAN BARBARA WALTERS I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up f... KURT BROWNING I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to... ANDREA BARRETT MICHAEL LEUNIG COREY HAWKINS As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about ... JAMES PAYN DEBORAH TANNEN SYDNEY POLLACK Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, t... CHARLIE COX I think what is nice about 'Elf,' and why it doesn't play as one long sketch, is that th... 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I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'... MARK BILLINGHAM Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk... MARK BILLINGHAM It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to... MARK BILLINGHAM The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because t... MARK BILLINGHAM There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reade... MARK BILLINGHAM Whether your audience is in a sweaty basement club or nestled in a favourite armchair, good money ha... MARK BILLINGHAM I'm completely absorbed by Peter Guralnick's definitive, two-part biography of Elvis Presley... MARK BILLINGHAM Too much research can be the writer's enemy. You can spend days on end in the British Library or... MARK BILLINGHAM In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was... MARK BILLINGHAM My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM Ian Rankin's Rebus is the king of modern British crime fiction. He is dour, determined, and cons... MARK BILLINGHAM More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective... MARK BILLINGHAM You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you ... MARK BILLINGHAM When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, bu... MARK BILLINGHAM What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough... MARK BILLINGHAM There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also... MARK BILLINGHAM Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.&#... MARK BILLINGHAM When a crime writer thinks up a delicious twist, it is a great moment. Time to relax and take the re... MARK BILLINGHAM Part of the reason why Scandinavian crime has been so popular is the landscape. It is just so strong... MARK BILLINGHAM I've always slightly preferred Spade to Marlowe, probably just because I thought Hammett was coo... MARK BILLINGHAM An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing. MARK MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ... MARK SHRIVER MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori... 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MARK GATISS MARK MCKINNON MARK TWAIN MARK ZUCKERBERG MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it... MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet! MARK MCKINNEY MARK EDWARDS MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay... MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ... MARK GATISS MARK RUFFALO MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you. 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It ends or it doesn't.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say th... 
Just because something is on trend doesn't mean you have to embrace it. You can look at it and a... 
I see so, so many novels written by people who are obviously short story writers. What they end up d... 
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, &... 
I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't und... 
I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally ap... 
The books we love, they love us back. And just as we mark our places in the pages, those pages leave... 
The myth of writer as, like, Asperger-style misanthrope, or, like, the Jack Nicholson, 'As Good ... 
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d... 
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a cou... 
Bausch is a wonderful storyteller. He's a mature writer who has a lot of confidence in the quali... 
You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can'... 
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I think you'll see a lot more offense from us this year. We have so many veterans coming back. Our s... 
Some of the writers definitely got inspired by some of the story lines, but we are evolving in the &... 
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything ou... 
Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is ... 
I love a great conspiracy story. Who doesn't? 
It doesn't matter who likes you or doesn't like you, all that matters is that God likes you.... 
It doesn't need to be happy so to be interesting, there are outside sad stories which are also inter... 
I'll do manicures, but I won't wear nail polish because I don't have time to change it, ... 
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly becaus... 
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I pluck with my fingernails. If I break a nail, I can't cancel a concert. So I can make a nail o... 
I don't work out or watch what I eat - but I need to start so it doesn't catch up to me. 
I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with. 
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My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can... 
He's an innocent in a lot of ways. He's a very simple person who really doesn't have the... 
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One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you'r... 
We admire virtue in a woman as long as it doesnt get in our way. 
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. 
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. 
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power. 
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Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f... 
I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ... 
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We’ll have to get you a sword,” I said. “When funds allow.”