Inspirational Quote by Janet Malcolm

“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons  attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons…

— Mark Twain

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

— Anonymous

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

— Denzel Washington

I think you've really got to cling to what makes sense to you. Obviously, I'm not a serial murderer in my real life, so…

— Jamie Dornan

“getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one’s motive is sufficiently inscrutable.”

— Tom Stoppard

“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

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

— Richard Castle

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact,…

— William C. Brown

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

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons…

— Mark Twain

“A murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still…

— Umberto Eco