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Quotes from Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out — Valerie Miner

born 1947 United States

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I didn't actually intend to write a murder mystery when I wrote Murder in the English Department. That's just what happened when these people got together. Every book is, in some sense, a mystery.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

I'm very much an Irish Republican, in the sense that I believe that the troops should be out of the north and that the north should be part of Eire.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

I care a lot about accessible prose. People often fail to see the subtlety in a sentence that has been honed, worked, and reworked, unless it's written by Ernest Hemingway and has a penis in it.

Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out (1993)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Valerie Miner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.