Crime Quote by Harlan Coben

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

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

— Sophie Hannah

I know a lot of crime writers feel very underrated, like they're not taken seriously, and they want to be just thought of as…

— Sophie Hannah

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

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

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue…

— Michael Connelly

Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of…

— Allan Massie

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

— Anita Brookner

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

— Karin Slaughter

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give…

— Susie Dent

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

— Lisa Lutz

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

— John Connolly