Crime Quote by Shirley B. Garrett Download Open image ““You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.”” — Shirley B. Garrett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Writing
“Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“But paranoids might have real enemies and obsessives might obsess about really important stuff.” — Stan Goff Copy Share Image
It's the doubt that is really a major ingredient of the paranoid thriller. — Alice Winocour Copy Share Image
“Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with… — Banksy Copy Share Image
“Paranoia is sometimes the best way a person can handle situations in life.” — Ronald K. Siegel Copy Share Image
“Paranoia. The more you think of an imaginary problem, the more you feel as though it’s real –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image