Crime Quote by Garry Disher

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to…

— N. K. Jemisin

Fiction writers are strange beasts. They are, like all writers, observers first and foremost. Everything that happens to and around them is potential material…

— Terry Brooks

Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form

— Irwin Shaw

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your…

— Chris Abani

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim…

— Amanda Foreman

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond

“Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my…

— Don DeLillo

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

— Khaled Hosseini

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

Fiction is a potent agent for good--in the hands of the good.

— Suzanne Curchod

The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes…

— Dana Spiotta