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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

Old man with an old phone. That's never not funny. — Adam McKay

When we design our national R&D programs, we ought to ensure a place for the small, the new, and the cutting-edge. — Jay Inslee

Lying tears hurt others. lying smiles hurt one's self. — C.c

People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you. — Avicii

Surfing isn't really in my blood. It's hard to catch a big wave in Billingham. — Jamie Bell

Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish. — Elsie Love

London now has its own John Grisham. — Mark Billingham

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied. — Mark Billingham

But you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol. — Malcolm Cowley

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will. — Mark Billingham

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything. — Richard Billingham

I was also very concerned about protecting my family — William J. Clinton

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.' — 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

I've never read an ebook. Print every time. — Mark Billingham

A good agent will sometimes need to be a scrapper, and that's the one you want. — 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

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

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know. — Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. — 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

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

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood) — Mark Billingham

The problem with being a writer is that some readers tend to think that anything that comes out of a character's mouth is you talking. — Mark Billingham

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers! — Dree Hemingway