Crime Quote by William Landay Download Open image “Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.” — William Landay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Broadly Speaking Crime Crime Legal Happens Happens Lie Interest Law Legal Stories Lying Stories Stories Broadly
I'm interested in stories that aren't getting told: it's where my interests lie. — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen when somebody endeavors to do a true crime story. It can be horribly misleading. — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you've a story, make sure it's a whole one, with details close to hand. It's the difference between a good lie and getting… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Crime stories are often sensationalized. They can provoke lower standards. — David Grann Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
“no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed—but” — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I do not believe in the court system, at least I do not think it is especially good at finding the truth. No lawyer… — William Landay Copy Share Image
An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“You can’t do it alone, that’s the thing. You have to remember there are other people out there who have gone through it, who… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent,… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“They were chosen for their perfect ignorance of these things. That is how the system works. In the end, the lawyers and judges happily… — William Landay Copy Share Image
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“You're staring.' 'You're my wife. I'm allowed to stare.' 'Is that the rule?' 'Yes. Stare, leer, ogle, anything I want. Trust me. I'm a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a… — William Landay Copy Share Image
“but good friendships require complementary personalities, not identical ones.” — William Landay 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
