Books Quote by Alastair Reynolds

Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity…

— William Monahan

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his…

— Jo Nesbo

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of…

— Ian Rankin

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure:…

— Sarah Weinman

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few…

— Sophie Hannah

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to…

— Denise Mina

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very…

— Michael Koryta