Am Quote by Sophie Hannah

I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer…

— Lisa Tuttle

My focus will always be crime, but it might not always be fiction, nor always for adults, nor books entirely in prose. That's a…

— Sarah Weinman

I've never been a great fan of crime fiction. I read Agatha Christie in my youth, but that's all.

— Olga Tokarczuk

I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

— Gregory David Roberts

I'm still not sure I want to be a writer. I think of myself as a storyteller more.

— Michael Morpurgo

There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.

— John Connolly

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

— Kajol

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.

— Alex Garland

I'm always accused of being a crime novelist, but I'm not really.

— Lisa Lutz

It wasn't a decision to become a writer. I wanted to become a writer of crime fiction. I was very specific.

— Michael Connelly

I never know as a writer when I set out into a novel where it's going to take me.

— Kim Edwards

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