Adversity Quote by Anonymous

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

— Jack O'Connell

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

“Words are blunt instruments, better suited to murder than to making sense of the world.”

— Mark Lawrence

“I am a being compromised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“I read the novel I had been writing for several months with an odd sense that it was the work of a stranger. I…

— Chloe Thurlow

“Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.”

— Aristotle

“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”

— Hélène Cixous

“Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.”

— Robert Galbraith

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“It is a misfortune to be in the presence of a writer, even a failed writer, to be seen by him, be his passing…

— Manu Joseph

“If you should stick only to what you know, we should worry about the thousands of authors who write about murder. If”

— Roz Morris

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck