Crime Quote by Sara Sheridan

“I don't write crime fiction. I write romances between fucked up people that happen to be active criminals.”

— Anonymous

A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to…

— Natsuo Kirino

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

“Most people think of criminals as hunchbacked, cross-eyed little monsters slithering through the dark leaving a trail of slime. They're not. They're human beings.”

— George R. Dekle Sr

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

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 murderer is seldom content with one crime. Give him time, and a lack of suspicion, and he’ll commit another”

— Agatha Christie

“who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we…

— Richard North Patterson

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

“Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.”

— Sophie Kinsella

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