Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Opportunity makes a thief.
Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.
I steal scenes, I steal opportunities. I am the ultimate thief. I got sticky fingers, man. They all call me The Thief.
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
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