“I wanted to wake up with a new name, a new hair colour, and almost the same heart.”
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
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Famous Carole Morin Quotes
Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse (2013)
“Writing things down is dangerous. Ink can’t be erased without leaving a mess behind.”
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse (2013)
Carole Morin Quotes about imagination
Trivial and Profound (2013)
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse (2013)
Carole Morin Quotes
“It’s hard work and it takes longer than murder or sex.”
Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse (2013)
Context: Murder and sex are both Dionysian.
Creative work is first anarchic; and then it’s structured. It’s right brain then left brain. Anarchic then controlled. To be a really good writer, you have to be able to do both. It’s hard work and it takes longer than murder or sex.
“I’d like to be called a Good Writer.”
Trivial and Profound (2013)
Context: I wouldn’t want to be labelled a Woman Writer even though I’m definitely not a man. And I think Scottish Writer has some unfortunate associations.
Last century when I was commissioned to write my first novel, Scottish writers were being bullied by a purple nosed publisher to write in dialect. Well my voice is authentically Scottish. I’m an educated Scottish person who escaped. My voice is as valid as a whiny cunt who lives in a council flat and doesn’t quite speak English. That doesn’t mean I have to sound like Evelyn Waugh either.
I’d like to be called a Good Writer. To quote a review on Amazon, "Carole Morin is a Fucking Genius. Fact." Fucking Genius will do.
“Characters in novels are all fiction like the world they live in.”
Chin Wag At The Slaughterhouse (2013)
Context: Characters in novels are all fiction like the world they live in. Of course Vivien Lash has things in common with me but if she actually was me I wouldn’t have been able to invent her. And I’m not plotting to murder my husband!
The closest connection between me and my characters is that we live in a city that’s recognisable as London, but it’s a version of London that came out of my head.
“Betrayal is a cliché … Lies are so suburban. But murder is nice and clean.”
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
“Lies are easy to believe in but the truth sounds false.”
Lampshades (1991)
“I think about toilets a lot, and how awful it must be to be a toilet.”
"Thin White Girls" (1984)
“Writing is prophesy.
Don’t write anything unless you want it to come true.”
Spying on Strange Men (2013)
