Crime Quote by Michael Chabon

“As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen…

— Frederick Forsyth

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz

“At night they emerge from the water, stalking over the grassy field, leaving bits of themselves on the ground. They gather at my bedside…

— Lee Thomas

“Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh-Morpork, pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a…

— Terry Pratchett

“Would the bastard ever call? Smoke drifted from the ashtray where a fine Cohiba lay unattended. Several burned-out butts crowded the glass, competing for…

— J.T. Ellison

“Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their…

— John Mortimer

“He turns again to the others. I dislike his talk; it goes against my grain to hear him speak so contemptuously of cobblers. They…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Like most policemen, Landsman sails double-hulled against tragedy, stabilized against heave and storm. It's the shallows he has to worry about, the hairline fissures,…

— Michael Chabon

“While we were being bombed in Dresden sitting in a cellar with our arms over our heads in case the ceiling fell, one soldier…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was a long time I used to sit on my suburb balcony looking over a distant horizon and faraway flames of oil-refineries on…

— Vladislav Khalyavkin

“You're a stone cold killer, Frank. You kill people for a living. And so does this German guy. You aren't heroes. You're what most…

— Jon F. Merz

“I came across an account of a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was eventually captured and executed by the Nazis when he was…

— Lois Lowry