Crime Quote by Sarah Morgan

“I credit the practice of law with teaching me how to make readers think one thing is happening when it’s really something else.”

— Elaine Williams Crockett

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.”

— Anonymous

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim

“When I’m asleep I’m a politician, and when I’m awake I’m a criminal. Throughout the day and night, my mentality never changes.”

— Jarod Kintz

“had studied law an entire week, and then given it up because it was so prosy and tiresome.”

— Mark Twain

“You have to write about what keeps you up at night.”

— Judy Goldman

“In the morning, nurture your mind with good books. At night, write yours.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

— Scott Turow

“Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.”

— Carla H. Krueger