Books Quote by Aaron Starmer

“Most good writers are good psychologists.”

— Rachel Ballon

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle…

— C.S. Lewis

“We think the feelings that are very serious in a man quite comical in a boy.”

— Charles Dickens

“Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened…

— Jasper Fforde

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“...real teenage boys aren't like characters in the books you read. They smell funny and are obsessed with video games and say dumb things.…

— Stacey Jay

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you…

— NisiOisiN

“Psychology: (103.) Unk, the big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when I’m working on a story, I’ll find myself laughing at something my…

— Elvira Woodruff

“In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It’s bullshit! Human nature is a…

— Jo Nesbø