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Crime Writer Inspirational Quotes (1806)

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I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room. (Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)
Charlaine Harris
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Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.
Jeffery Deaver
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The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.
Charlaine Harris
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The novel is final form it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant.
James Ellroy
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children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing is so remote from us as the thing which is not old enough to be history and not new enough to be news.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I was embarrased, horrified and absolutely ready to jump him!
Charlaine Harris
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Every remedy is a desperate remedy. Every cure is a miraculous cure. Curing a madman is not arguing with a philosopher it is casting out a devil.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
Jeffery Deaver
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...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting...
Edgar Allan Poe
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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?
Kathy Reichs
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A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.
Michael Connelly
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Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.
Jane Haddam
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It is human to err and the only final and deadly error, among all our errors, is denying that we have ever erred.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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