Quote by Emily Maguire

“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.”

— Kathryn McMaster

“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…

— Anthony Horowitz

“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

“Murder develops. Yes, like a photograph, isn't it?”

— Agatha Christie

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler

“It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.”

— Phillip DePoy

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”

— Richard Castle

“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of the nineteenth…

— Judith Flanders

“It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

“My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You…

— William Landay