“I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.” — Val McDermid Quote

“I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.”

“The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.”

“Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.”

“I told my father I wanted to go to the stock market. My father reacted by telling me not to ask him or any of his friends for money. He, however, told me that I could live in the house in Mumbai and that if I did not do well in the market I could always earn my livelihood as chartered accountant. This sense of security really drove me in life.”

“Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields a similar revenue model.”