Crime Beat: Stories of Cops and Killers

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

— Grantland Rice

For several years, I made my unofficial beat the stories, struggles, and politics of blacks in America. I wrote about other things, also, but…

— Cord Jefferson

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial…

— Stephen King

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.

— Pat Brown

In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual…

— Errol Morris

Greg Jackson is a sport killer

— Dana White

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are…

— Eddie Reese

Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or react or end a scene, it's a spontaneity-killer.

— Bruce Campbell

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off…

— Nick Hornby

Get off me,” Harry spat, throwing Pettigrew’s hands off him in disgust. “I’m not doing this for you. I’m doing it because — I…

— Anonymous

Perhaps I'm being too optimistic, but I think this country is finally ready for a black serial killer.

— Anthony Jeselnik

That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the…

— Barry McGuire

The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that…

— Noam Chomsky

Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process.

— Adam Baldwin

I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth…

— Bill Burr