Author Quote by Natsuo Kirino

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 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

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

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

— Karin Slaughter

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

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

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

— Andrew Hixson

The reason some crime writers have a chip on their shoulder about the label is because their good books are shelved beside books about…

— George Pelecanos

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

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of…

— Ian Rankin

The crime part is the engine that moves the narrative and allows me to write the other things I want to write about.

— George Pelecanos