Lois McMaster Bujold Quotes

If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.

If your subject is crime, then you know at least that you're going to have a real story. If your subject is the maturing of a college boy, you may never stumble across a story while you're telling that. But if your story is a college boy dead in his dorm room, you know there's a story in there, someplace.

'It's been almost a month since you found a body. I knew you were due.'

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

It may not be too late, whatever happens, if our President, Lyndon Johnson, knew the truth from me. But if I am eliminated, there won't be any way of knowing.

The shooting of the suspected murderer by an exhibitionist night-club proprietor is too idiotic to be believed. That the Dallas police should have allowed it to happen is so stupid that the brain reels. Now it will never be satisfactorily proved whether Oswald shot the President or not, and there will be a jungle of rumors …

Of the 750 murder case investigations, only one had been done the correct way from A to Z.

Do not read 'Hard Choices' if you seek a nuanced analysis of the people who run the world's foreign policy, let alone any juicy gossip.

Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

I'm a big believer that Marilyn Monroe was killed.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

No, that's because there are more interesting things to do." Her grandmother looked at her sharply. "Like cutting into dead bodies" Carmeryn swallowed back her irration. "Yeah-the live one kick too much.

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.

Everything has to do with murder.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

What I feel is that if one has got to have a murder actually happening in one's house, one might as well enjoy it, if you know what I mean.