Eoin Colfer Quotes

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

People just like a good crime story; they want to know who did it.

If you were the only suspect in a senseless bloodbath, would you be standing the the horror section?

When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

Who the hell do you think did it, Martians?

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

We never had a female predator surface in our investigation.

If you weren’t there, how do you know someone pushed her?” Sergeant Kenn asked. “Well …,” said Jared. “And what were you doing, running through a strange town at night?” “I was jogging?” Jared offered. “Without your shirt or your shoes?” “Uh,” said Jared.

Who do you think it was that brought the bottle to her?

Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

I always make a point of keeping the most pleasant-sounding name for the murderer. As he or she is bound to come to an unpleasant end, it seems the very least the author can do.

I like mysteries.

Individual bankers are rightly being investigated by the police. I and all colleagues in the chamber hope that if criminality is proven, they will go to jail and bear the same brunt of punishment as any other criminal.

My job is to ask tough questions.

Science is about questioning things.

There's no way I'm not gonna have a gun, 'cause you just never know what'll go down in Atlanta. But I'd rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I'm just trying to protect myself.