Books Quote by Paul G. Tremblay

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

— Peter Shaffer

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day…

— James Patterson

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

— Janet Evanovich

Doing crime films...maybe it's to some extent a matter of taste. Certainly my first novel had a criminal element and was about the similarity…

— William Monahan

My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a…

— John Irving

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close…

— Patrick Modiano

I was very fortunate that my first novel captivated the imaginations of so many readers who asked for a sequel. After that, one book…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

Fiction novels, that's my game.

— David Benioff

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did…

— Sue Grafton

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time…

— Alastair Reynolds