Crime Quote by Mark Langan

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

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to…

— Natsuo Kirino

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

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

“Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught…

— Sara Sheridan

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

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

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

— Sara Sheridan

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

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

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in…

— Harlan Coben