Books Quote by Robert Galbraith

“Life is just as deadly as it looks, but fiction is more forgiving.”

— Richard Thompson

“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.”

— Kathryn McMaster

“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

“And I don’t recommend murder as a way of settling difficult situations. It tends to lead to complications—but not nearly as many as marriage.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

— Jeffrey Cranor

“It happened in the autumn of the year, when murder feels at home, because so many other things are dying.”

— Phillip DePoy

“It is not my intention to give away the plot; but I think I die at the end.”

— Margaret Edson

“Every true story ends in death.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“One thing that was beyond our wildest dreams was that somehow the simulation of arguably justifiable serial murder could bring people together.”

— Michael C. Hall

“If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.”

— Jesse Andrews

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

— Don DeLillo

“Death is the ending of all true stories.”

— Martine Leavitt