After Quote by John Banville

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to…

— Denise Mina

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his…

— Jo Nesbo

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

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

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

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

— Alastair Reynolds

The plot is very important because writers have to play fair with their readers, but no one would care about the plot if the…

— Karin Slaughter

Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity…

— William Monahan