Crime Fiction Quotes

27 quotes by 22 authors

Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics. — John Banville
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. — Harlan Coben
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun
Steve Mosby has become one of a handful of writers who make me excited about crime fiction. — Val McDermid
Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft… — Charles Frazier
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's… — Terrence Rafferty
The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment. — Stanley Ellin
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James
The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by… — Michael Dibdin
You're about to meet a new great dame of crime fiction in Death Was the Other Woman. Linda L. Richards does a stunning job in… — Linda Fairstein
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more. — Camilla Lackberg
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish… — Camilla Lackberg
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. — Donna Leon
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in… — Kathy Reichs
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. — Denise Mina
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach. — Denise Mina
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries. — Denise Mina
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell
Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to… — Linwood Barclay
When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books. — Michael Connelly

Who Wrote These Crime Fiction Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 27 Crime Fiction Quotes as follows: