Bone Quote by Sarah Weinman

'Restaurant Man' is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might…

— Joe Bastianich

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in Black Mask magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their…

— Charles Frazier

As his celebrity grew in stature, as he transformed from line cook to chef at Les Halles and further high-grade Manhattan restaurants to charismatic…

— Sarah Weinman

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

I think the "crime novel" has replaced the sociological novel of the 1930s. I think the progenitor of that tradition is James M. Cain,…

— James Lee Burke

“Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted…

— Colin Bateman

I was given a thick paperback copy of the 'Guinness Book of Records' when I was 11 years old, and I read it gluttonously,…

— Russell Smith

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

— Don Winslow

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and…

— John Irving

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

— Alastair Reynolds

“Then he imposed a set of new rules: nobody touch anything, especially not his toothbrush. (He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one…

— Michael Wolff