Gore Quote by Leigh Hunt

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for…

— Carl Sagan

“There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Sometimes dishonesty, distrust and fiction can turn beauty into pure ugliness.”

— Raxbeatz

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

“People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero’s.”

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it as being…

— Ron Carlson

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose…

— Caleb Carr

“Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.”

— LeAnn Neal Reilly

“What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer's fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world's eyes…

— Thomas Mann