Books Quote by Jenny Lawson

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

“We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don’t worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the…

— Salman Aziz

“But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.”

— James Baldwin

I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned…

— Franz Kafka

“Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it...”

— Megan Johns

“The reason is, because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.”

— David McCullough

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

In re-reading 'Presumed Innocent,' the one thing that struck me - and I re-read the book four different times in writing 'Innocent,' interested in…

— Scott Turow

“When exactly did punishing the guilt became more important then helping the innocent”

— D

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

— Josh Billings

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

— Anton Chekhov

“How can people be punished when they are innocent?”

— Paul Scott