Books Quote by Andrew Hixson

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those…

— DeRay Mckesson

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

— Rush Limbaugh

“We solve crimes, but we’ll never solve crime.”

— Bob Deasy

Can you ever “solve” poverty? Can you ever “solve” crime? Can you ever “solve” disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no.

— Max Brooks

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

— Tom Stoppard

It takes me two to three years to write a novel. A screenplay is 100 pages and takes five years.

— Nick Hornby

I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.

— Ernest Cline

I'm pretty hardcore. I stick exactly to what I'm doing. So I write a novel in one period, and then I'll write stories in…

— T.C. Boyle

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.”

— Thomas Harris

If you get trapped in your head and out of your body during the writing process, it's very easy to make wrong turns. You…

— Soman Chainani

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either…

— Irvine Welsh