Top 1200 Crime Novels Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

The difference does not lie in the things that news does that novels do not do, but in the things that novels do that news cannot do. In other words, this basic technique of news - just one among many - is something a novel can use, but a novel can deploy a multitude of other techniques also. Novels are not bound by the rules of reportage. Far from it. They're predicated on delivering experience.

People have started to see that 'smart on crime' rather than 'tough on crime' makes sense.

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

Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.

At conventions, one of the standard questions I get is, 'Are you writing any new novels?' To which I used to respond, in my smart-[alec] fashion, 'No, I've decided to write only old novels.'

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they were.

There is no city in the country with nil incidence of crime. We have to look into the crime rate in proportion to the population figures.

I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.

I don’t like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I can only write one novel at a time. The author of the Perry Mason novels, Erle Stanley Gardner, often worked on four novels simultaneously, and produced a million words a year. I'm envious.

It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels... I keep my deep, radical things for my novels.

I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Is it exploitative to get the victim of an unimaginably horrific crime to talk on my show 'Crime Stories?' No, it's crucial.

The saying within the writer's room, which were my words of wisdom, if you will, was, "The punishment doesn't have to fit the crime, but there has to be a crime."

For everyone else who aren't fantasy fans or who don't know anything about 'The Witcher', this is something that we can experience together because it's drawn from the novels, but there is so much within the novels that we have developed.

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same way as novels.

No one reads novels anymore. And I don't see the situation improving. People prefer video games, reality TV, and films. There are so many reasons now not to read novels.

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political crime. A political crime, in legal terms, is defined as any crime against a state, as opposed to against an individual. Assassination, for example, is not a political crime because you've killed a person, an individual, and they've been harmed; their family's been harmed. But the state itself, you can't be extradited for harming it.

With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

The chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

The only crime equaling inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence, and forgetting.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

When I started reading George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' novels, it was the late 1990s and obsessing over fantasy novels was (if painful memory serves) a super-nerdy thing to do.

The crime should be punished no matter whether poverty or wealth caused it to occur, because the crime is wrong.

Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

I saw that crime pays, but I never got involved in crime.

I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

I like crime movies where the crime is so incredible that, attractive as it seems, you don't wanna do it because it's just too dangerous.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of these movies based on novels are there going to be?!'. People laugh at that question and they go novels, there are all different types of novels. But there are all different types of comic books, they just happen to have drawings on the cover!

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

I'd read one too many crime novels where the victim was just a name: body number one, dead woman number 12. I understood fear, and I wanted to create characters who made readers say, 'Please, don't hurt this guy.' That's the key to suspense. It's easy to disgust a reader. It's much harder to make them care.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing.

Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime.

White collar crime must be taken as seriously as any other crime.

We wish to be treated 'not as ordinary prisoners,' for we are not criminals. We admit no crime - unless, that is, the love of one's people and country is a crime.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

To call it a crime against Mankind is to miss at least half its significance, it is also the punishment of a crime.

There are many reasons I love novels with multiple narratives. In novels where the events are filtered through the consciousness of a single 'reliable' narrator, I often wonder, is this the whole story? What could be missing here?

I'm vitally interested in cyber crime and in preparing law enforcement for a time when crime is international in its origins and its consequences.

A news junkie, I read, daily, the 'Times/Sunday Times,' the 'Guardian/Observer,' 'Mail,' and the 'Argus' - both to keep up with crime in Brighton, where I set my novels, and because I think it is vital to support local papers - they provide a unique accountability for councils, emergency services and so much else, and are dangerously undervalued.

I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.

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.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.

The greatest myth about mass incarceration is that it has been driven by crime and crime rates. It's just not true.