Adventures 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

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

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

— Tom Stoppard

“but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The hunt for the “moral of the story” ultimately strips the story of its essential tone, which means it runs the danger of no…

— Sarah Arthur

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target…

— Scott Turow

“And, in fact, if these crimes appeal less to the senses, they appeal more to the mind; and the mind, in the last analysis,…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“He is guilty, but he will be acquitted, from motives of humanity, in accordance with the new ideas, the new sentiments that had come…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Andrew Hixson

“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.”

— Joel Norris