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 don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The boy loved his parents more than anything on this Earth. And so he had to kill them.” — Mark Hill Copy Share Image
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
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun 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
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“This is the truth that sets you free: you are who you commit yourself to being, you have what you commit yourself… — Anthony Chapman Copy Share Image
“Think of your new position as that of a business mercenary; fighting the war for the mighty dollar – after all, it… — D.B. Stephens Copy Share Image
“I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to… — Nina D'Angelo Copy Share Image
“THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON’S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank… — Anthony Chapman Copy Share Image
I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“You’ll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
“It was the members of the public who didn't seem to care what was happening on the streets around them, who hurried… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“Rage and despair shook her for minutes or hours. She was unaware of the passage of time. Finally spent, she retreated inward… — V.S. Kemanis Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm just gonna kill you," says Mike, peeved at being predictable. "You ever think of that?" "No, Mike. Because if you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or… — Peter Temple Copy Share Image
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction -… — Anthony Geary Copy Share Image
If you think the shifting tectonics of world history might make for a juicy crime fiction backdrop, the last decade or so… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“Those Zolofts make me so fucking hungry. I’ve gained 20 pounds – it’s totally out of control.” George Hanson In The Shadow… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“When a man walks alone, He is heard by thy own ears... But when a man walks among others, He is heard… — Mark Edward Thomas Piotrowski Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence… — Michael Allan Scott Copy Share Image
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
“All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me,… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
“Sneaking out at night. You think you’re so clever, but you’re not. Either you’re a saboteur, Johannes, or you’ve got a mistress.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.” — John Nardizzi Copy Share Image
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Crafting a piece of gripping, narrative true crime that engages the world is not that different from crafting a piece of crime… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“My name’s Alis K. From now on you will be Willy. Come on, let’s push the bicycles for a bit.” Ingrid aka… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
