Rozan Quotes

#1. If seeds fight their way out of darkness, you can fight your way out of anything.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.

S.J. Rozan

#3. While he sweated out a story she bled put a poem. (Dark City Lights)

S.J. Rozan

#4. One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.

S.J. Rozan

#5. The Old Testament teems with prophecies of the Messiah, but nowhere is it intimated that that Messiah is to stand as a God to be worshipped. He is to bring peace on earth, to build up the waste places
to comfort the broken-hearted, but nowhere is he spoken of as a deity.

Olympia Brown

#6. I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

S.J. Rozan

#7. The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

S.J. Rozan

#8. The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

S.J. Rozan

#9. He moves to kiss me but winces. I lean over to him and pause just as our lips are about to touch. I like the heat and electric tingles on my lips from his closeness.

Susan Ee

#10. Once, he'd been sure the view from the peak would be worth the climb. But slowly he'd come to know that the path he was on, littered with boulders, pitfalls, and traps, crept onward forever but never reached the top.

S.J. Rozan

#11. Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.

S.J. Rozan

#12. Pleasure! The end of suffering or the beginning of an enjoyment?

M.F. Moonzajer

#13. When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.

S.J. Rozan

#14. The most resonant crimes are the ones in which the victim is most innocent, or perceived as innocent. Blaming the victim is tempting; it offers an out.

S.J. Rozan

#15. I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.

Peter Hargreaves

#16. Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

S.J. Rozan

#17. Chinatown is tremendously interesting ... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

S.J. Rozan

#18. What crime writers are doing connects deeper into a cultural hunger. Crime is important. When you open up a book that has a body that's dead, that matters. It matters more than a certain level of suburban angst; it really does.

S.J. Rozan

#19. In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form.

Marcy Kaptur

#20. We are entering an era in which national government, instead of directing, enables powerful regional and local initiatives to work, where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions

Gordon Brown