The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct. — Bill James Copy Share Image
In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden. — Bill James Copy Share Image
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our base of knowledge. But… — Bill James Copy Share Image
I think among the population at large, people are openly fascinated with crime and don't feel any shame over it. It's only… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Men feel challenged when a woman is in danger, so those types of stories interest women and they interest men on a… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Later, after Rule became famous, she stopped writing those kind of books and started writing about a different kind of true-crime case.… — Bill James Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take… — Bill James Copy Share Image
All societies have these cases. There are many, many crime cases that remain famous from the times of the Romans. The Bible… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
Because crime stories reveal an aspect of our personality that everybody has, but which we normally keep very deeply hidden. We like… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Until about 1970 when parents beat their children to death they very often escaped punishment. They would be prosecuted if it was clear and… — Bill James Copy Share
Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin. — Bill James Copy Share
“I’m sort of a baseball agnostic; I make it a point never to believe anything just because it is widely known to be so.” — Bill James Copy Share
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family,… — Bill James Copy Share
“Words are useful, sir. That's from the communicating point of view. They come into their own then. When you think about it, even Morse… — Bill James Copy Share
We need new athletes all the time because we need new games every day - fudging just a little on the definition of the… — Bill James Copy Share
We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime. — Bill James Copy Share
Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice. — Bill James Copy Share
I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear… — Bill James Copy Share
There comes a moment during a job interview when you're still talking, but you might as well take off your shoes. — Bill James Copy Share
There are, I believe, many more false confessions to murders than true confessions. — Bill James Copy Share
Our society is very, very good at developing certain types of skills and certain types of genius. We are fantastically good at identifying and… — Bill James Copy Share
A chart of numbers that would put an actuary to sleep can be made to dance if you put it on one side of… — Bill James Copy Share
