Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire…

“In the South, there was a gentle tradition of 'it's only a crime if you get caught doing it.' Sometimes it was known as…

— C. L. Bevill

Because they're my stories, they're my version of events of the past three years. But I really hope people can hear their own stories…

— Emeli Sande

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on…

— Donna Leon

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

— Antonia Fraser

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

— Peter Temple

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the…

— Karin Slaughter

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach…

— Gerald Clarke

“Good storytelling is one thing rural whites and Indians have in common. But native Americans have learned through harsh necessity that people who survive…

— Kathleen Norris

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with…

— Greg Bear

“It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our…

— Brian Jay Jones

“Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East. The…

— Muhsin Mahdi

Come along it is the break of day. Surely now, you'll have some things to say. It's not the time for telling tales on…

— Sia

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I…

— Irvine Welsh

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me,…

— R. A. Salvatore