Bouchercon Mystery Quotes

#1. They met at one of the Bouchercon mystery conferences. Love among the midlist. "It's raining cats and dogs!" Ted announced, which gives you an idea of the sort of thing they write.

Josh Lanyon

#2. it's being branded a failure that causes the most pain; when 'failure' changes from being a verb to becoming a noun.

Anup Kochhar

#3. Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

Isabella Beeton

#4. When you don't have kids and you're in a Catholic family - one of my sisters had 10 children in 11 years - she's part rabbit - you feel kind of guilty about that. So, I want to do things for other people's children.

Marge Schott

#5. My children have grown up around animals. They're not scared of them.

Candace Cameron

#6. She does not get eaten by the sharks at this time," my father said. I looked up at him. "What?" "You looked like you were getting too involved and bothered so I thought I would let you relax.

William Goldman

#7. The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#8. The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#9. If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Ronald Wright

#10. I forgot the defective can be more than the whole

Thomas Hardy

#11. I was at dinner with Gene Wilder and imitated Ethel Barrymore for everyone.

Dom DeLuise

#12. Your particular trip isn't done just yet. Remember that true enlightenment is never finished. Ever. Understanding is never complete.

EXO Books

#13. I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!

Caitlin Moran

#14. If everybody in the world got together and put their troubles up for sale on the table, you'd grab your troubles back and run away.

Nancy Ring

#15. Life is what we make of it. Whether we conceive of an inner god force or an other, outer God, doesn't matter. Relying on that force does.

Julia Cameron