"Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime……" — Sara Sheridan
"Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre."
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61 Quotes by Sara Sheridan
Sara Sheridan has 61 quotes on this site.
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I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.
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Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
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An aunt is a safe haven for a child. Someone who will keep your secrets and is always on your…
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To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is…
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While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by…
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I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you…
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I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And…
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I believe the era of the militant lady is back.
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People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by…
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Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the…
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I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that…
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History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
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More Crime Quotes
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one of 2,562 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
— Hannah Arendt
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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Poverty is the mother of crime.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down…
— Paul Auster
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Drug prohibition has caused gang warfare and other violent crimes by raising the prices of drugs so much that vicious…
— Michael Badnarik
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Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful…
— Johnny Ball
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
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Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
— John Banville
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