Doe Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly…

— Mary MacLane

“Sure, what is murder? Isn't it common enough in these parts?" "It is, indeed; but it's not for me to point out the man…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you…

— Emily Maguire

“There is nothing so bracing as planning a murder. I recommend it to the weak-willed and those with a leaky sense of self. It…

— Shelley Jackson

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact,…

— William C. Brown

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

— Denzel Washington

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

— Louise Doughty

“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

I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long…

— Donna Tartt

“Murder is the thoroughbred stable. Murder is a shine and a dazzle, a smooth ripple like honed muscle, take your breath away. Murder is…

— Tana French

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

— Thomas Harris

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm