Blue Quote by Sarah Weinman

Joseph Wambaugh did not invent the police novel, but no one had seen anything like 'The New Centurions' when it was published in 1971.…

— Sarah Weinman

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and…

— Robert Crais

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing…

— Bruce Willis

“You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity,…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

— Terry Pratchett

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

I learned to write crime novels by reading people I hoped to emulate: people like James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, Joseph Wambaugh, and Sue…

— Michael Connelly

With my earlier books, I got quite bored being with one protagonist all the way through. With the Alex Morrow books, I wanted to…

— Denise Mina

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is…

— James Ellroy

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

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

In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing…

— Nick Petrie