Very little other than Elmore Leonard's crime writing inspiring me on my Batman run.
Jim Starlin
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Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards.
David Grann
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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Donna Leon
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
Naomi Wolf
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Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
Jo Nesbo
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In a colony constituted like that of New South Wales, the proportion of crime must of course be great.
Charles Sturt
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If a superhero is a community superhero, then is he going to protect his community by controlling everything? If he decides to control crime, does that make him a crime boss? Does that make him a criminal?
Cheo Hodari Coker
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For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.
Laura Lippman
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I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Jessica Savitch
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There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
Cedric Richmond
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I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.
Clint Eastwood
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I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
Karin Fossum
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There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.
Joel Edgerton
ActingAuthorityCrimeOutAgainst
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
Bill James
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Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Bob Hope
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No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.
Karin Slaughter
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The real hate crime these days is the Orwellian intimidation wielded by the Left against those that don't think the way they do. It's worse than waterboarding.
Andrew Breitbart
HateThinkCrimeWayRealDays
Anyone, any type of story, it doesn't have to be a crime victim, you don't have to let yourself be food for the media.
Bernhard Goetz
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If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.
Antonin Scalia
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
Kapil Sibal
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Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
Meghan Daum
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The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch your life. I don't care who you are - if you committed a crime and you had to have all of your emails searched and made public, who on this planet could survive that? Nobody.
Albert Brooks
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Pete Moffat writes crime conspiracy thrillers so beautifully. He goes places other people wouldn't; he is fearless.
Alistair Petrie
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I wrote 'Knots and Crosses,' the first of the Rebus books, not even realising that I was writing crime fiction.
Ian Rankin
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