Bunch Quote by Frank Miller

I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy. I grew…

— Michael Emerson

We grew up on Scorsese and Coppola and '70s crime thrillers.

— Joe Russo

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their…

— Charles Frazier

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

— Michael Connelly

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I love so many different genres. I love crime films - and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I grew up on film noir.

— Lynne Ramsay

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and…

— Ruth Ware

I'm most interested in people who've lived life in the extreme, which is what draws me to crime fiction.

— Nick Petrie

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his…

— Jo Nesbo

I grew up on films.

— Sam Rockwell

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

— Lennie James