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Crime Quotes

I'm not a post-modernist. Especially when I do crime stories.

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.

Writing Soup Think You Know Crime

I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'

Together Fashion Name True Crime

We're carrying out a real crusade against corruption and impunity with a focus on white-collar crime.

Focus Corruption Crime Real Out

If you give everybody a good government job, there's no crime.

Good Job Government You Crime Give

I don't have a college degree. I started working at 19 on a tiny newspaper. I've covered everything from weddings to crime to criminal weddings.

Celia Rivenbark

College Crime Newspaper Everything

To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another, and a movie is yet another. There's even reverence to a screenplay.

Christopher McQuarrie

Me Media Crime Reverence Even Movie

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

City Control Crime Out Baltimore

A crime is a crime, regardless of what collar you wear.

You Crime Wear Collar Regardless

Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.

World Boredom Crime First Being

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Innocence Crime Always Stealing Been

We are afraid to face the hard questions. We are willing to tackle drugs, crime, and public education only if it doesn't cost us any new taxes.

J. Irwin Miller

Education Face Questions New Crime

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.

Crime Matter Fiction Sentimental How

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Business Justice Police Crime System

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.

Interesting Crime Horror Always Were

As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

Karin Slaughter

People Bed Crime Out Foot Get

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

Crime Conservative Fiction Element

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Bernard Tschumi

Society Crime Delights Secretly

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

Writing Think Trying Crime Order

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Mistakes Mistake Rise Crime Will

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Crime Consider Novels Any Really

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

King Play Crime Greatest Shakespeare

I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.

Strong Details Crime Punishment Read

I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

Think Crime Mature Worst Within Mix

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