Crime Scene Investigation Quotes

I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.

I thought that Mr. Clutter was a very nice gentleman. I thought so right up to the moment that I cut his throat.

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.

She's filing her nails while they are dragging the lake.

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

I think I have made too many cop films.

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.

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public's need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator.

Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.

I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.

Crime is sexy.

I love crime series.

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.

'CSI' is a part of who I am.

I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

Watch where you leave your victims! I stubbed my toe on that.

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.

At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.

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.