Comfortable Quote by Kathy Reichs

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions…

— Asa Larsson

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

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

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

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

— John Connolly

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All…

— John Connolly

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like…

— Linwood Barclay

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

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

— Tod Goldberg

With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.

— John Banville

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

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