Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch." [From a…

— Rupert Hart-Davis

“We're all made to the same pattern. Knitted up like a thrifty housewife's sock from scraps - random unravelled bits of yarn that used…

— Tanya Moir

“In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“undid my knitting. All those little knots that you make one after another, row by row, to knit a sock, I undid them. It’s…

— Diane Setterfield

“I know about an actual murder over a watch, it's in all the newspapers now. If a writer had invented it, the critics and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“[Aftermath of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881] What happened to the conspirators - Zhelyabov already in prison, Perovskaya, Kibalchich and the…

— Edward Crankshaw

“Mrs Morton’s knitting needles tutting against each other in disapproval.”

— Joanna Cannon

“The whole thing starts with a single knot and needles. A word and pen. Tie a loop in nothing. Look at it. Cast on,…

— Gwyneth Lewis

“brakes on his investigation into”

— Andrew Gross

“The chief investigator for Special Cases was a composite of the most ordinary features, a stencil of a man.”

— Martin Cruz Smith

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild

“I was into it while I was trying to figure it out. Counting those stitches was fascinating because I wanted to beat it. But…

— Kit Rocha