Corruption Quote by Oliver Harris

“The least dignified thing that can happen to a man is to be murdered. If he dies in his sleep he gets a respectful…

— Paul Theroux

“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

“Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties." (Interview in Writers…

— John Irving

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying.…

— William Kent Krueger

“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner…

— Anonymous

“A man is always a teller of stories (...) and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it”

— Jean Paul Sartre

Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.

— Bill James

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of…

— Melina Marchetta

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it…

— Don DeLillo

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young,…

— S. S. Van Dine