Crime Quote by Karin Fossum Download Open image “I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.” — Karin Fossum ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crime Good Plot Something Writer Writing
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about. — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel,… — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
“Why did criminals have so many rights? Why were they entitled to respect and understanding? Had they not acted so unlawfully that these rights… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“It's hard, to live in the present. Right this minute. We spend most of our time in the past. Or in the future…about half… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies. — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“Now while it's hanging in the gallery I pine for it. But once it's on my own wall, perhaps it will be different --… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“While I am absorbed by fiction, I pull the strings like a puppeteer; I make things happen. It's a passion and a lifelong obsession.” — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“achieved a result, then just hours later this retreat, which didn't worry him, he said, the confession would weigh heavily in court, it needed… — Karin Fossum Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
