712 Crime Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else. Karin Fossum

Good Crime Else Plots Something Something Else Writer

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live. Karin Slaughter

Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime fiction. Karin Slaughter

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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other. Karl Shapiro

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I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. Kate Mosse

Crime Thrillers Read Lot American Novels

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. Katherine Dunn

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With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don't have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear. Katherine Jenkins

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I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters. Kathryn Harrison

Police Crime Journalist Investigative Track

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have. Kathy Reichs

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I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime. Katie Price

Crime True Read Brain Interested

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. Ken Bruen

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What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates. Ken Cuccinelli

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There's nothing conservative about allowing ourselves to become so inured to a 'tough on crime' frame of mind that we would abandon tested alternatives that can yield better outcomes. Ken Cuccinelli

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Psephology isn't a hate crime. Ken Livingstone

Hate Crime

When you're from New York, people take a second look at you. In Virginia, the other players always asked about the fast life we live. They want to know about the crime. As a player, they expect you to be able to do things that excite a crowd. And they always want to beat you. You're the New Yorker. Kenny Smith

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You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. Kerry Greenwood

You Crime Solution Detective Need

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime. Kevin Mitnick

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The thing about going back to El Paso, it's overwhelming sometimes. I look at the support that I get and the success that I've had, and I can't walk anywhere without being spotted. My hair might be the biggest crime in this situation. Khalid

In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for parents, no universal preschool and minimal safety nets for vulnerable families, making it a crime to offer children independence in effect makes it a crime to be poor. Kim Brooks

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If you are a DACA that's compliant with your registration, meaning you haven't committed a crime, you, in fact, are registered, you're not priority of enforcement for ICE should the program end. Kirstjen Nielsen

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Here's the deal with 'Bastard.' I loved that show, and for me, it was such a palate cleanser, going from writing urban vernacular and crime to, essentially, iambic pentameter. I loved the mythology of that world based on history, but what it came down to was money. Kurt Sutter

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