It's strange when you think about it. There are hundreds and hundreds of murders in books and television. It would be hard for narrative fiction to survive without them. And yet there are almost none in real life, unless you happen to live in the wrong area. Why is it that we have such a need for murder mystery? And what is it that attracts us? The crime, or the solution? Do we have some primal need of bloodshed because our own lives are so safe, so comfortable? . Anthony Horowitz
There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.
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Charlaine Harris
I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep.
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Astrid Artistikem Cruz
Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?
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Sylvia Plath
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
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Will Cuppy
The Jews are cowering along the wall, eyes wide, palms up, fingers splayed -- a collective posture of submission. Even now, with everything that has happened, with the city in ruins and the dead as thick upon the streets as busted glass, they don't want...
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Miles Watson
More Quotes By Anthony Horowitz
Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
Let me ask you a question Alex. What do you think is the greatest evil on this plant today?"" Is that including, or not including you?
You must have been going very fast."" I was, until I hit the fence.
I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You're not going to tell me you're afraid of a little prick?"" I wouldn't call you that...
All that sadness. All that anger. It is the smoke that gets into your eyes. If you do not blow it away, how can you hope to see?
