Crime Quote by Charles Palliser Download Open image ““Such people are their own punishment.”” — Charles Palliser ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime
“I think people feel a kind of need for punishment when they can no longer accept their own actions.” — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
“Whereever we get punishment, know that it is our own fault only. How would we be punished otherwise?” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the true punishment for miscreants and wrongdoers is having to be the person that they are.” — Jim Lyon Copy Share Image
“It is as if she is punishing everyone who has ever done her wrong through her punishment of me.” — Lake Union Publishing Copy Share Image
“No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Those who consider themselves fair, are particularly ruthless.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“How can a prisoner understand their punishment to have been worthwhile to anyone, when it's dealt in a way so offhand and indifferent?” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“If his nose were a tail he would be the perfect image of a sow’s rear end.” — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.' — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could… — Charles Palliser Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
