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All writers I know are readers first and foremost, and that's why you become a writer.
— Mark Billingham
Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.
— Mark Billingham
I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books.
— Mark Billingham
If the weather is nice, I play tennis, which is pretty much the only exercise that I do. I try to do that as much as I can.
— Mark Billingham
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.
— Mark Billingham
All you can hope for when you get a book adapted for TV is that you get a good actor and not some muppet off 'EastEnders.'
— Mark Billingham
London now has its own John Grisham.
— Mark Billingham
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.
— Mark Billingham
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
— Carlos Castaneda
Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'
— Mark Billingham
'Junkhearts' is a great story.
— John Boyega
I was so full of hate that there was no room in me for such feelings as love, pity, kindness or honor or decency,
— Carl Panzram
Live, laugh, love for tomorrow in another day.
— Robert Gerus
I've never read an ebook. Print every time.
— Mark Billingham
Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.
— Mark Billingham
In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
— Mark Billingham
I write slowly and get distracted a lot.
— Mark Billingham
The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.
— Mark Billingham
I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
— Mark Billingham
Having worked as both comedian and crime writer, the one thing I know is that both involve the delivery of a performance.
— Mark Billingham
I read 'Jaws' and 'The Godfather' back to back one summer when I was 14 and was suddenly aware of how powerful fiction could be.
— Mark Billingham
I started performing as a stand-up comedian on my own in the mid-1990s.
— Mark Billingham
I wanted to write at school - to write funny stories which the teacher might ask me to read out to the class. It's all basically about showing off.
— Mark Billingham
I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.
— Suzanne Finnamore
What I usually do is hoard money - I accumulate as much as possible in the fear of not having enough to pay tax.
— Mark Billingham
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy ... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
— Charlie Crist
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
— Conor Oberst
We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.
— Meryl Streep
Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
— Mark Billingham
