- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime Quotes
Crime, fear, and what a society owes the victim.
This crime quotes collection includes a stark line about crime and its fear shaping American life, and a pointed connection drawn between illiteracy and resorting to crime. See Criminal Justice quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this country, we force millions of people - who are largely black and brown - into a permanent second-class status simply because they once committed a crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
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- Nov 07, 2020
White-on-white crime is a devastation in America like so-called black-on-black crime. It's not black or white-on-white crime. It's proximity murder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confessions are not processed or analysed; they're told in a moment of desperation to a priest or to somebody interrogating you about a crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.
- Fiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
- Innocence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
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- Nov 07, 2020