Books Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Crime Recoil
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“The serial murderer often seeks the very form of capital punishment that is being held over his head as a deterrent.” — Joel Norris Copy Share Image
Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of… — Allan Massie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions.” — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
To me, the ultimate crime in an adaptation is the crime of reverence. A novel is one form of media, a screenplay is another,… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
