Ann Cleeves quotes

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go. (Ann Cleeves)
Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic. View quote
Ann Cleeves
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. View quote
Ann Cleeves
I lived in Shetland for a short while in the seventies and have been visiting ever since, so I have lots of useful contacts! View quote
Ann Cleeves
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. View quote
Ann Cleeves
I write traditional drama, and the small enclosed communities work well with this form. I enjoy exploring secrets. On small islands, privacy is important, and there are secrets that everyone can guess but nobody talks about. View quote
Ann Cleeves
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion. View quote
Ann Cleeves
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. View quote
Ann Cleeves
Television is much more collaborative in many ways than prose. View quote
Ann Cleeves