"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."

Crime, Order, Trying, Writing

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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."

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"One crime has to be concealed by another."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Every sin is the result of a collaboration."

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"It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special features from which deductions may be drawn. This murder would have been infinitely more difficult to unravel had the body of the victim been simply found lying in the roadway without any of those outré and sensational accompaniments which have rendered it remarkable. These strange details, far from making the case more difficult, have really had the effect of making it less so."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"If there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone's wallets."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

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"I guess having one hundred and four condoms full of heroin in your guts and the thought of a firing squad in your head make will make most things seem insignificant."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar."

James Chiles, American Historian

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"In fact, if you have a crime committed against you, and you go to have hypnosis, you can't testify. Because there's no way to test what is real, what's fact, what's fantasy."

Betty Hill, American Celebrity

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"I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving."

Yancy Butler, American Actress

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"That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing."

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"Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid."

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"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."

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"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."

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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."

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"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"

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