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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.
Charlaine Harris
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Anything seems commonplace, once explained.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
Jeffery Deaver
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is always dishonest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Lord help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.
Patricia Cornwell
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I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
Robert B. Parker
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The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
Jeffery Deaver
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The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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And by golly, love sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.
Charlaine Harris
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The husband was a teetotaller, there was no other woman, and the conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling them at his wife.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Government has become ungovernable that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You were so sweet when you didn't know who you were.
Charlaine Harris
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A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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