Crime Quote by Daniel Woodrell

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to…

— Laura Lippman

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

— Jo Nesbo

Fiction is socially meaningful.

— David Guterson

I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is…

— Karin Slaughter

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion

— Donna J. Haraway

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

— John Connolly

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…

— Michael Dibdin

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

— Sophie Hannah

When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as…

— Sarah Weinman

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

— Karin Slaughter