Books Quote by Anonymous

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous…

— Karin Slaughter

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the…

— Stephen King

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

— Flannery O'Connor

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

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

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But…

— Jane Smiley

I like books like 'The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher,' where the investigation of a crime becomes a way into an exploration of the society…

— Tana French

My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.

— Tom Helm

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be…

— Sophie Hannah

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I…

— Mary McCarthy

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

— Robert Sylvester