Activity Quote by Edith Pearlman

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

— Louise Doughty

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains thirteen murders,…

— R.A. Lafferty

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

“The biggest crime in the human history is the formulation of wicked states, which has been rooted to such an extent that we are…

— Anup Joshi

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

— Steve Schirripa

“It was like being a prisoner on death row who survives month after month and becomes accustomed to the life, while he registers with…

— Bernhard Schlink

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not…

— Anonymous

“Between a book's covers there may be passion, bile, mayhem, or murder, but in the quiet spaces where it awaits its fate (either acceptance…

— David Abbott

“Extreme civilization robs crime of its frightful poetry, and prevents the writer from restoring it. That would be too dreadful, say those good souls…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly