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I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all. — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on. — John Banville Copy Share Image
Most crime novels offer a curious kind of escape, to places that jag the nerves and worry the mind. Their rides of suspense give… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. — Denise Mina Copy Share Image
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction. — John Connolly Copy Share Image
Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world. But I… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels that also stick in a… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
My father, whose hobby was collecting secondhand cricket books, came back from a book fair one day with a copy of 'The Body In… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at him, and… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
In West Yorkshire, I'd have to drive three quarters of an hour to go shopping. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that… — Jay Allan Copy Share Image
Taking notes while watching Forensic Files and Snapped. I don't want to make the same mistakes the criminals do! ;) — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“a crime to fell a tree and light it on fire, where coals of hardened shit warmed and stunk up homes,” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
A great read; an exciting, frightening account of organized crime today. But like all important works of nonfiction, it goes further… This book is… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
