Crime Quote by Karin Slaughter

When a novel is based on an actual crime, it should do much more than loosely fictionalize it. The novel must stand alone as…

— Sarah Weinman

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

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo

In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I…

— Hank Phillippi Ryan

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

— John Connolly

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

How can quality crime fiction not be produced with available subject matters as the Industrial Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, the creation of organized police…

— Sarah Weinman

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

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

— Howard Gordon

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

— Denise Mina

A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.

— Vladimir Nabokov

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