Crime Fiction Writer

Agatha Christie

Literature

Knox's Commandments

1890–1976

"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."

Isaac Asimov

Science

1920–1992

"It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim."

🇬🇧G. K. Chesterton

Literature

1874–1936

"'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober'."

🇬🇧George Robert Sims

Literature

1847–1922

"Text of 'In the Workhouse - Christmas Day'."

🇺🇸Charlie Huston

Literature

b. 1968

"A gun and a smoke. Ask for more, you're a greedy bastard."

🇺🇸Rex Stout

Literature

1886–1975

"There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living – cook books and detective stories."

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature

1859–1930

":"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

🇬🇧Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Literature

1875–1956

"A web page about Bentley, with some clerihews and some biographical information on Bentley himself"