Books Quote by Mark Twain

“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

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

— Mark Twain

“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book will be…

— Wendell Berry

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

— James Nesbitt

The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.

— Vittorio Alfieri

“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people —…

— E.M. Forster

Identify the moral dilemma driving the novel. the successful novel will haunt a reader because it deals with some ethical or moral dilemma that…

— Rick Riordan

My approach to the story... is if you can get into a criminal's mind and understand how it works and understand how crime is…

— Chris Hansen

Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is…

— Jane Rule