Books Quote by George Pelecanos

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

— Mary Archer

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.

— Antonia Fraser

“You came out of prison incredibly buff or with an addiction to paperback novels.”

— Heather O'Neill

Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the…

— Karin Slaughter

After you have been incarcerated for so long, whatever story is told in the aftermath is beautiful.

— Rhys Ifans

There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's really good…

— Pam Houston

Some writing programs are very much like, you come in, and you have a niche that becomes yours, and, you know, you're the dude…

— Jennifer Konner

Prison always has been a good place for writers, killing, as it does, the twin demons of mobility and diversion

— Dan Simmons

Most incarcerated women have stories that are similar to mine. They suffered great trauma as children.

— Susan Burton

What the readers want is a good story, and what the writers always want to luck into, it's a good story.

— Stephen Graham Jones

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and…

— J. G. Ballard

“I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times.…

— Roman Payne