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I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two…
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I'm a fast writer, and crime novels are easy to do. It's much harder to write a 1,000 word article, where everything…
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Your job description as a journalist is to question and scrutinize critically-neve r to repeat claims uncritically, no matter how highly placed…
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In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do…
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have…
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
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I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had…
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To exact revenge for yourself or your friends is not only a right, it's an absolute duty.
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Cortez looked like someone newly in love, the way only twenty-four-year-olds can look.
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What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.
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Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like…
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When this is all over I'm going to found an association called 'The Knights of the Idiotic Table' and its purpose will…
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British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.
— Lee Child
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's…
— Camilla Lackberg
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on…
— Sam Trammell
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The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison…
— John Gunther
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I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it…
— Jo Nesbo
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Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have…
— Steig Larsson
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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I…
— Frank Miller
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Crime stories show us the part of people's lives they try to keep hidden.
— Bill James
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Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.
— Bill James
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Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.
— James Nesbitt
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Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.
— Jeffery Deaver
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