“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been. — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“My philosophy in life is to eat, drink and investigate - in that order.” — Mel Healy Copy Share Image
“More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy.” — Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“You ever choke a man out with his own shirt?” “What kind of question is that?” “A yes or no one.” — Todd Morr Copy Share Image
“Everyone should have a kid. They really put things in perspective. I know a guy can get you one cheap.” — Anthony Chapman Copy Share Image
This next to never happens, but if I had time to sit on a beach and read, I wouldn't read a cozy.… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
“That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole… — Camilla Lackberg Copy Share Image
“Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case… — Jim Thompson Copy Share Image
“There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and… — Jeffrey Rasley Copy Share Image
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didn’t know why or how, but there… — V.S. Kemanis 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
“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
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
How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of… — Sarah Weinman 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
“In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It’s bullshit! Human nature… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that… — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“She had been lying there, facedown in the water long before the tide had turned at 3.04 that morning. Her eyes were… — A.J. Waines Copy Share Image
“I get a little obsessive, it was my hallmark as a coach. I'm more effective when it gets personal and I tend… — Kendric Neal 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
“Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.” — Mark Billingham Copy Share Image
“Absolutely nothing should stand in the way of a murder investigation, however lowly the victim.” — Mark Ellis 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
“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
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
“No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD… — Simon Palmer Copy Share Image
“Hascomb snatched an ancient weapon out of his glove compartment. Officers have smuggled them home from the last five wars. The Colt.45… — John D. MacDonald 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
“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
“In policing, some uniforms and cars are black and white, but on the street, in the real world, nothing is black and… — Edmond Gagnon Copy Share Image
