Character Quote by Albert Camus

In many respects I have gone out of my way to avoid the usual approach adopted in crime novels. I have used some techniques…

— Stieg Larsson

When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who…

— Benjamin Jealous

I've always been accused by my detractors of some sort of moral failure, cowardice, or even lack of humanity by not portraying the human…

— Robert Polidori

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is…

— Agatha Christie

A criminal has a kind of freedom by definition that the ordinary citizen doesn't have. The criminal's able to realize himself in ways not…

— William Monahan

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

— Nana Patekar

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

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are…

— Jack Kevorkian

I always try to humanize a character.

— Atul Kulkarni

“Readers often root for characters that are innocent victims – or who are subjected to forces beyond their control.”

— Rob Parnell

I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to…

— Clint Eastwood