Book Quote by James Patterson

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything…

— Emilia Fox

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made…

— Avi

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

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

— Michael Connelly

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time…

— Alastair Reynolds

I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks.

— Paul Wahlberg

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.…

— Robert Cormier

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure:…

— Sarah Weinman