Age Quote by Megan Abbott

I have had a lifelong fascination with horror movies, scary movies, how they work.

— Cindy Sherman

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field…

— Megan Abbott

True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.

— Megan Abbott

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

— Megan Abbott

I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes &…

— James V. Schall

“I bought you something" Willows blurts out. "You bought...What?" Willow closes her eyes for a second. She's a little surprised she's going to give…

— Julia Hoban

“The upscale neighborhoods in Blue Sky Hill weren't all lily white anymore, but you could be sure their kids didn't wear our kind of…

— Lisa Wingate

“Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors.”

— Hernan Diaz

I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I…

— Robert Crais

“Just handling this ocean of different books—new and used, in and out of print, famous and forgotten—it was literature as this giant mosaic of…

— Jonathan Lethem

One day, I found this book at a used bookstore with 'Satanic Bible' written on the cover, and I thought maybe I should read…

— King Diamond

“The name Mary Jo Quinn was written neatly in faded blue marker on the front of the scrapbook, its gray edges frayed with age…

— Nancy Barr