Devices Quote by Donna Tartt Download Open image “Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.” — Donna Tartt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devices Fascinating Found Murder Storyteller Thinking Wells
I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open… — Molly Lefebure Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery? And… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.” — Robert K. Ressler Copy Share Image
I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime? — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to… — Donna Tartt Copy Share
And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“A month or two before, I would have been appalled at the idea of any murder at all. But that Sunday afternoon, as I… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Always remember, the person we’re really working for is the person who’s restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He’s the one we… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“The silence between us was happy and strange, connected by the cord and the icy voices thinly echoing. “You don’t have to talk,” she… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world, that no one and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“maybe that’s what’s waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“lights and moods and seasons was to see it a thousand different ways and to keep it shut in the dark—a thing made of… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
![“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device…” quote by Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa9/haruki-murakami-21_accepting_the-sense-of-tragedy-according-to-aristo_23796.jpg)
