Act Quote by John Connolly

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

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

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

One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out…

— Kathy Reichs

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

When you are a sentence-based writer, they have to be good. They have to be really on the spot. Because when you don't have…

— Per Petterson

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And…

— John Green

When you're writing, I think a big part of writing comes out of an attempt to understand yourself. You're dealing with emotions and thoughts…

— Sheila Heti

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across.…

— Chace Crawford

I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings.

— Judy Collins

Good writing is good writing. In many ways, it’s the audience and their expectations that define a genre. A reader of literary fiction expects…

— Rosemary Clement-Moore