America Quote by James Patterson

“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281”

— Alberto Manguel

“Have you got De Tocqueville's Journey to America? Somebody borrowed mine and never gave it back. Why is it that people who wouldn't dream…

— Helene Hanff

All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.

— Nina Bawden

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are…

— Ruth Stout

In the first batch of readers, back in the '60s and '70s, the criminal class was still literate, so I would get letters from…

— Donald E. Westlake

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in…

— Ian Rankin

I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.

— Philip Pullman

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

— Kaye Gibbons

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

— George Pelecanos

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that,…

— Patricia Schroeder

I've been writing a book called The Economics of Innocent Fraud. I published part of it already in The Progressive ("Free Market Fraud," January…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter