Books Quote by Michael Connelly

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put…

— Alafair Burke

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

my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

— Megan Abbott

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

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters…

— S. S. Van Dine

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

My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.

— Karin Slaughter

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

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

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

Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give…

— Susie Dent