"Then, like a born and bred asshole, he added to the sheriff, "He writes murder mysteries."

-- Josh Lanyon

#Writing Quotes #Mystery Quotes #Murder Quotes

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
“Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.”
“I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.”
“This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies.”
“Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2006). “Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting”, p.12, Princeton Architectural Press
“Much better than the feeling of having things is the feeling of having earned things.”
“Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking.”

Source : Kage Baker (2005). “In the Garden of Iden”, p.217, Macmillan
“I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.”

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