Art Quote by Russell Smith

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

Good art can come out of thieves, bootleggers, or horse swipes. People really are afraid to find out just how much hardship and poverty…

— William Faulkner

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

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

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

— Roman Payne

Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across.…

— Chace Crawford

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must…

— Philip Roth

“If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and not recognizably human, etc.--is also a description of today's world, then…

— David Foster Wallace

The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting…

— Seamus Heaney

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

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure…

— Virginia Woolf

Usually people who do bad things make good writers.I did a lot of bad things, which is why my novels are interesting.

— Jakucho Setouchi