Crime Quote by George Pelecanos

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

— Karin Slaughter

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

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to…

— Natsuo Kirino

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

— Antonia Fraser

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of…

— Ian Rankin

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

— John Connolly

As a filmmaker, I tilt towards stories which are crime-led.

— Sriram Raghavan

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

— Jo Nesbo

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,…

— Mark Bonnar

I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on…

— Donna Leon

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

— Karin Fossum