Books Quote by Sophie Hannah

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, most people are motivated by unconscious motives most of the time.

— Anonymous

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive,

— Janet Malcolm

For me, a big part of writing psychological thrillers is choosing crimes committed for motives which would only apply to a particular person in…

— Sophie Hannah

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly…

— Mary MacLane

“Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?”

— J.D. Robb

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely…

— Anonymous

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno

“Traits that are common among psychopathic serial killers--a grandiose sense of self-worth, persuasiveness, superficial charm, ruthlessness, lack of remorse, and the manipulation of others--are…

— Kevin Dutton

The why of murder always fascinates me so much more than the how.

— Ann Rule

Motives are symptoms of weakness, and supplements for the deficient energy of the living principle, the law within us. Let them then be reserved…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge