Theatre Quote by Jasper Fforde

“When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We…

— Heather O'Neill

“I shall set down in a few lines how uptight Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done. He later…

— Comte de Lautréamont

“So wicked do destruction and secrecy appear to honest minds, that Mr Lorry and Miss Pross, while engaged in the commission of their deed…

— Charles Dickens

“He thought dawdling, protective thoughts, sitting under the lamp, but he knew that pretty soon his name would be called and he would have…

— John Steinbeck

Flawed characters... a ticking clock... morally questionable acts on all sides... moody, evocative art... oh yeah, this the stuff crime noir fans love!

— Christos Gage

“In the evening, she proposed that the three of them should visit the Pit Theatre, in Stench Street, Seven Dials, to see a new…

— Stella Gibbons

Actors are the best and the worst of people. They're like kids. When they're good, they're very very good. When they're bad they're very…

— Kenneth Branagh

“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The London criminal is certainly a dull fellow. Look out of this window, Watson. See how the figures loom up, are dimly seen, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“And eventually in that house where everyone, even the fugitive hiding in the cellar from his faceless enemies, finds his tongue cleaving dryly to…

— Salman Rushdie

“They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.”

— Rea Lidde

“For Oscar, high school was the equivalent of a medieval spectacle, like being put in the stocks and forced to endure the peltings and…

— Junot Díaz