8 Ann Cleeves Quotes for You to Enjoy

Ann Cleeves

British Writer

Born: 1954

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Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place. Ann Cleeves

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Shetland is the most remote place in the U.K. It's a part our country, but completely unique. It might be British, but it's closer to Norway than to Edinburgh, and it feels very different from the mainland. Ann Cleeves

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Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose. Ann Cleeves

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Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic. Ann Cleeves

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You must never call it the Shetlands. Islanders are proud and can be prickly about the name: it's either Shetland or the Shetland Islands. Ann Cleeves

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I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved. Ann Cleeves

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I'm aware families sit around the telly to watch 'Vera', which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don't enjoy reading about people's pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it's not somewhere I want to be. Ann Cleeves

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