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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1807)

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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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No matter the barbs of fate that frustrate you, no matter how stacked against you the cards of fortune. . . . There is a liberating law in the universe, and you can become the highest of the high, wisest of the wise.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.
Uell Stanley Andersen
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
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A society gets the criminals it deserves.
Val McDermid
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When all else fails, go for the ego.
Val McDermid
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Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction.
Val McDermid
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To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!
Edgar Allan Poe
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It's not magic that takes us to another world - it's storytelling.
Val McDermid
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The trouble with most people is they think there's only one right way to do anything.
Velda Johnston
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Great wealth is its own nationality.
Velda Johnston
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There are no new ideas about female education.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And everyone's in the same situation, basically: we're all finding our separate ways, together.
Chris Pavone
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Ann Rule
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I always want to give the victim a voice.
Ann Rule
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Some writers hate to go to trials, but I love trials.
Ann Rule
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There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.
Ann Rule
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All men are ordinary men the extraordinary men are those who know it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There's always these giant baffling books, like 'The Da Vinci Code.' People say it's not as well written as 'Midnight's Children.' Why aren't people reading 'Midnight's Children?' Nobody knows why these phenomenons happen but they're great.
Denise Mina
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My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.
Jane Haddam
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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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