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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
— Val McDermid
Tags: growing-up, like, feel, you

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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
— Val McDermid
Tags: day, world, time, you
I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.
— Val McDermid
Tags: own, my-own, sparkle, will
I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
— Val McDermid
Tags: despair, plastic, accountant, i-am
I did want to be Joni Mitchell for quite a long time.
— Val McDermid
Tags: want, long-time, long, time
I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.
— Val McDermid
Tags: house, school, bible, time
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