Art Quote by Hannu Rajaniemi Download Open image “The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.” — Hannu Rajaniemi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Creative Creative art Creative artists Crime Criminals Critics Detectives
“He thought his detective brain as good as the criminal's, which was true. But he fully realised the disadvantage. "The criminal is the creative… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,… — Mark Bonnar Copy Share Image
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“there is enough bandwidth here to fry an unprotected human many times over. A” — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
If reality is not what you want it to be, change it. You should not accept anything blindly, not death, not immortality. — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“I always loved the way you are so quick to see everybody else as monsters.” — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“The carriage lurches back and forth as the vehicle – the bastard child of a spider, a H. G. Wells war machine and a… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“Tell me one thing,’ Isidore says. ‘What was this place before?’ The Eldest pauses. An expression of sadness flickers across her serene face.” — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“You found the memories. But there was another you who tried to take them. So you trapped him in a prison, and only got… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“A wave is travelling across the adamantine vastness. Where it passes, only a smooth, featureless surface remains, an endless, shining plain, a nothingness. The… — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
“I merely repeat the old joke. ‘It’s about respecting other people’s property. I make it my property so that I can properly respect it.” — Hannu Rajaniemi Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
