Books Quote by Roz Morris

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

— Kathryn McMaster

“If books could kill, I would have written more of them before I died.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“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

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.”

— Nevea Lane

“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can do is…

— Lady Jaida

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The”

— Agatha Christie

“Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.”

— William Faulkner

“Authors go on writing books, and so we go on reading them. It is a sad state of affairs.”

— Elizabeth Aston

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck