Crime Books Quotes:

Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

topic: Dream, Crime Books, Punishment, Crime And Punishment

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Men, Law, May, Limited Government, Founding

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

- Amy Sedaris

topic: Book, Play, Cop, Before I Die, Crime Books

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

- Tom Araya

topic: Book, People, Stuff, Case Studies, Crime Books

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

- Vincent Bugliosi

topic: Book, Objectivity, Mistress, Crime Books, Trial Lawyers

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

- Steve Schirripa

topic: Book, Bad Mood, Sometimes, Crime Books

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

- Mary Roberts Rinehart

topic: Book, Two, Stories, Mystery Novels, Crime Books