Crime Books Quotes

• Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gun, Law, Strong Arms

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• Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Punishment, Way

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

  Amy Sedaris

  Book, Play, Cop

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• I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

  Tom Araya

  Book, People, Stuff

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• I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Book, Objectivity, Mistress

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• I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

  Steve Schirripa

  Book, Bad Mood, Sometimes

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Two, Stories

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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