Books Quote by Andrew Hixson Download Open image ““I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”” — Andrew Hixson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Crime Detective fiction Writing
“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I don't know… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“When I walk between the rain drops, I never get wet.' Taken from ENEMY WITHIN, due out next year” — ANDREW HIXSON Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
