3 Quotes & Sayings By Edmund Crispin

Edmund Crispin (22 February 1919 - May 2005) was an English writer and journalist. He is perhaps best known for his work as a journalist, particularly for his "novel of reportage" The Naked Civil Servant (1960). He also wrote several screenplays. His style of writing is often compared to that of P Read more

G. Wodehouse.

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None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits. Edmund Crispin
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The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility.... Edmund Crispin