Crime Quotes - Page 33

• I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

  Steig Larsson

  Character, Two, People

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• The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and all the virtue of the world. A dollar in a university is worth more than a dollar in a jail; in a temperate, schooled, law-abiding community than in some sink of crime, where dice, knives, and arsenic are in constant play.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Law, Knives

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.630, Modern Library

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• The rumors of Frank Sinatras violence and his ties to organized crime were such that journalists joked in print about me ending up in concrete boots and sleeping with the fishes if I proceeded to write his biography.

  Kitty Kelley

  Writing, Sleep, Ties

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

  Alafair Burke

  Lying, Thinking, Crime Novels

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• Thus, after a period of about two thousand years the greatest crime became to worship a god other than the God of Moses, whereas injustice became a minor sin. I began to ask myself how this change had come about. Was it linked to a new order in which the female goddesses had been replaced by one male god?

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Order, Years, Two

  Nawal El Saadawi (2013). “Walking through Fire: The Later Years of Nawal El Saadawi”, p.108, Zed Books Ltd.

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• Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

  Stockwell Day

  Responsibility, Gun, Police

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• Can you ever “solve” poverty?  Can you ever “solve” crime?  Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes?  Hell no.

  Max Brooks

  War, Unemployment, Disease

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.61, Broadway Books

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• The thing about 'Dark Knight' is its objective is to set Batman into your world, so that you can imagine the moral dilemmas he faces are exactly parallel to moral dilemmas that you would face in this world, today, if you were out there fighting crime dressed like a bat.

  Zack Snyder

  Fighting, Dark, Knights

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• Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

  Michael Koryta

  Crime Novels, Giving, Twists

  "Born Storyteller: An Interview With Michael Koryta, Author of So Cold the River". Interview with Jason Pinter, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 8, 2010.

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• The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime.

  Barack Obama

  Garden, People, Rose

  Remarks by the President and Governor Romney in Second Presidential Debate, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. October 17, 2012.

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• Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Police, Good Questions, Answers

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• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

  Garry Disher

  Way, Evoke, Thrillers

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• Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

  Garry Disher

  Red, Fiction, Tactics

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• The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.

  James Ellroy

  Book, Crime Novels, Mars

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• In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

  Peter Temple

  Strong, Moving, Writing

  "The Book Show" with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. June 18, 2006.

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• I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I ever wrote a novel or crime novel of any kind, I had to set it here.

  Peter Temple

  Thinking, Crime Novels, Australia

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• A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonists taste in music, or were told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

  Peter Temple

  Hero, Writing, Personality

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• Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Stupid, Lazy, Making Money

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• In many ways, we've been taught to think that the real question is, do people deserve to die for the crimes they've committed? And that's a very sensible question. But there's another way of thinking about where we are in our identity. The other way of thinking about it is not, do people deserve to die for the crimes they commit, but do we deserve to kill?

  Bryan Stevenson

  Real, Thinking, People

  "We need to talk about an injustice". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• To see one's name in print! Some people commit a crime for no other reason.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Names, People, Reason

  Gustave Flaubert (1968). “Dictionary of Accepted Ideas”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• Anyone, any type of story, it doesnt have to be a crime victim, you dont have to let yourself be food for the media.

  Bernhard Goetz

  Media, Stories, Victim

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• We join Armenians around the world as we remember the terrible massacres suffered in 1915-1923 at the hands of the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The United States responded to this crime against humanity by leading diplomatic and private relief efforts.

  George H. W. Bush

  Hands, Effort, Humanity

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• ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  War, Mean, Turkeys

  Theodore Roosevelt (1954). “Letters: The days of Armageddon, 1909-1914”

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• The storm center of lawlessness in every American State is the State Capitol. It is there that the worst crimes are committed; it is there that lawbreaking attains to the estate and dignity of a learned profession; it is there that contempt for the laws is engendered, fostered, and spread broadcast.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Law, Liberty

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