Quotes About Crime

You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.

Cadillac Beach a novel TIM DORSEY

We're dealing with one of the worst kinds of killer." "What kind's that?" asked the lieutenant. "Patient.

Nobody ever brought up the hairpiece, and Salenca thought it was the perfect crime.

Something's gone horribly wrong in paradise. There used to be an agreement among criminals that we left the most vulnerable alone.

It's not a question of whether crime pays. It's whether you enjoy your job. That's the key to life.

Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.

The early fly gets the cadaver

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

After I started writing crime fiction, I said to myself, 'I may be limited, but the genre's not. There's no reason to change genres if I'm happy writing what I write.' And I am.

There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.

They don't call him 'No Drama Obama' for nothing. He's even worse than we thought because he has committed the ultimate American crime, worse than anything he has been accused of so far: He has no sense of humor.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.

I love noir, quite obviously.

I grew up on film noir.

You're immediately in a world of noir when you're watching shows like 'The Bridge' or 'The Killing.'

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent, horror fiction.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

I had wanted to write English crime novels based on the American hard-boiled style, and for the first two novels about Brixton, the critics didn't actually know I was Irish.

I read a lot of detective novels.

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

When you start a sentence with the word 'illegal', you've got nowhere to go. An illegal is illegal.