Crime Quote by Anonymous

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

“My goal from the outset was to write a novel that perfectly balanced crime and romance. It’s not unusual to see detectives or legal…

— C.R. Lemons

“Romance can be a by-product of crime.”

— Agatha Christie

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo

“Writing is like a relationship. When it is good, it is damn good; when it is bad, you contemplate murder.”

— Nevea Lane

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught…

— Sara Sheridan

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

“While all murders are tragic, not all murders are interesting to write about.”

— Kathryn McMaster

“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

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

“You can’t plot murder like a novel. There are always loose ends in real life.”

— Robert Galbraith