710 Crime Quotes for You to Enjoy

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. George Farquhar

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I'm proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. George Pelecanos

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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. George Wald

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I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. Gerald Clarke

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Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. Gillian Flynn

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment. Grace Poe

Crime Will Nothing Punishment Deter Certainty

You prevent kids from joining gangs by offering after-school programs, sports, mentoring, and positive engagement with adults. You intervene with gang members by offering alternatives and employment to help redirect their lives. You deal with areas of high gang crime activity with real community policing. We know what works. Greg Boyle

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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it. Gregory David Roberts

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'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes. Gretchen Rubin

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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. Hakan Nesser

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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. Harlan Coben

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I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. Howard Coble

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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife. Iain Duncan Smith

I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience. Ian Rankin

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The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern. Ian Rankin

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The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction. Ian Rankin

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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime. Imre Lakatos

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

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To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it. Irene Peter

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I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it. Isaac Hempstead Wright

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