It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Al Hickey: It's not about anything. Frank Boggs: Yeah, it's about four hundred grand” — Phillip Rock Copy Share Image
“I covered the body with a rug. You think I’m an idiot?” Bruno Hanson In The Shadow of Sadd.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. I was not interested in… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman… — Catherine Astolfo Copy Share Image
“I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“I thought about taking a course in painting. I was good at drawing in school, you remember?” “You never went to school.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“And what is corruption, I ask you? Who gets hurt if a poor cop gets a new car or a week’s vacation… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
“The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if… — Mike Bartos Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved… — Nick Petrie Copy Share Image
“It brings me peace to know that it all began with crime fiction as a child, and that it is there, after… — Sara Blaedel Copy Share Image
“His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that… — Tom Vater Copy Share Image
“Emilia typed in her password and checked her inbox. A review by the Secretariat de Gobernación of drug cartel activities across Mexico.… — Carmen Amato Copy Share Image
“For one… If you shoot me and your boss realizes it was without good reason, you’ll have fucked up your trial period.… — Natasha McNeely Copy Share Image
“The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“...We were pulling into the next station, when the woman suddenly got to her feet and made a move to squeeze past… — A.J. Waines Copy Share Image
“After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.” — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
“God, I swear I’ve never seen a more nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.” — Feather Stone Copy Share Image
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
“I ought to warn you, dear, he can get rather wild when he’s hungry” — Wilkie martin Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“Foreign food isn’t really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.” — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Absolutely nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim.” — Mark Ellis Copy Share Image
“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.” — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
