Crime Quote by Don Roff

“For writers, handing a manuscript off to an editor is like walking into a parole hearing. You’ve done the time but wonder if it’s…

— Shandy L. Kurth

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

— Peter Greenaway

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more…

— Fran Lebowitz

I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.

— Nelson DeMille

I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use…

— Rich Fulcher

“When you read a manuscript that has been damaged by water, fire, light or just the passing of the years, your eye needs to…

— Diane Setterfield

For any writer, a red pen is such a trigger.

— Jason Isbell

If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

— Victor Hugo

As a writer, you have to be mean and vicious. Use the pen as your gun. Sometimes the people you write about get hurt.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter

Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your…

— Arthur Quiller-Couch

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make…

— James M. Barrie