Books Quote by Lisa Gardner

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent,…

— Joe R. Lansdale

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'm a writer of fiction. I try to write about my time, but it's dangerous if I'm seen as an investigative writer. I manipulate…

— Abi Morgan

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a…

— Sarah Weinman

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

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

— Karin Fossum

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few…

— Sophie Hannah

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

— Lisa Lutz

I'm very secretive. I'll write a whole novel and revise it, which might take me two years or more, and the people I know…

— Alice Mattison

Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.

— Hallie Ephron

Wrote my first "novel" when I was six. Studied a bit in college, but then pursued history... But when I started writing professionally, it…

— David B. Coe