Black Quote by William C. Brown

“a man who read too many books and disagreed with everybody”

— Seamus Deane

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. . . . If it is a good book…

— Wendy Wax

“He was so effectually screened by his great wealth that he was called to no account for his crimes, not even for murder.”

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

— Robert Sylvester

“A brilliant black thinker, he grew up in South Carolina, where someone called the police when young Ron tried to check out a science…

— Leland Melvin

“They know a million tricks, those novelists. Take Doctor Goebbels; that's how he started out, writing fiction. Appeals to the base lusts that hide…

— Philip K. Dick

It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young,…

— S. S. Van Dine

“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can do is…

— Lady Jaida

“I was, like everyone else who wrote books or read them, against the criminal and for the innocent victim. There was one exception in…

— Agatha Christie

“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been murdered; an…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Feeding that ego by consistently printing and televising stories about the murders was assuring that there would be more murders.”

— Robert K. Ressler