Edmund Crispin Quotes

#1. Discretion," said Fen with great complacency, "is my middle name."
"I dare say. But very few people use their middle names.

Edmund Crispin

#2. Myths are experienced in ordinary life, as everyday epiphanies.

Phil Cousineau

#3. How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time.

W.G. Sebald

#4. The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility ...

Edmund Crispin

#5. None but the most blindly credulous will imaging the characters and events in this story to be anything but fictitious. It is true that the ancient and noble city of Oxford is, of all the towns of England, the likeliest progenitor of unlikely events and persons. But there are limits.

Edmund Crispin

#6. Virtually all success depends on trying things that fail.

Rhonda Abrams

#7. When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about "it" (prayer) but are infectious about "Him

Daniel Henderson

#8. As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.

Edmund Crispin

#9. Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

George Gilder

#10. Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Edna Woolman Chase

#11. Sometimes, when you're this adventurous, you rip the crotch out of your pants.

Josh Gates

#12. Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Charles Darwin

#13. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.

Edmund Crispin