Crime Quote by Nick Petrie

I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of…

— Nick Petrie

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

— Olga Tokarczuk

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue…

— Michael Connelly

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

— Michael Connelly

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

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very…

— Michael Koryta

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed…

— Frank Miller

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

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a…

— Nick Petrie

I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs…

— Benicio Del Toro

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to…

— Laura Lippman

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