Crime Quote by Peter Temple

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told…

— Peter Temple

The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

— Stanley Ellin

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people,…

— Anonymous

You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.

— Jodie Whittaker

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

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

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

— Jo Nesbo

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

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

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure:…

— Sarah Weinman

I'm always interested in what classic crime writers got into when they stepped away from the genre stuff they were known for. That's why…

— Todd Haynes

The truth is that the writers who most influenced me weren't people categorized as crime writers. I'd say I learned more from John O'Hara,…

— Elmore Leonard