Airplane Quote by Stieg Larsson

With the crime novels, it's delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. It's like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

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

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not…

— Anonymous

You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen…

— Liz Williams

With the crime novels, its delightful to have protagonists I can revisit in book after book. Its like having a fictitious family.

— John Banville

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people,…

— Anonymous

I really relate to outsider characters. Especially the eccentric, lunatic weirdos like Alfred Hitchcock, Viktor Navorski in The Terminal, or the Anvil guys. Everything…

— Sacha Gervasi

I've been fortunate to play many different types of characters thus far. However, I really enjoy playing roles that are different than who I…

— Gina Holden

In general, I'm always interested in characters who have kind of extreme aspects to them, who are in some ways larger than typical people.

— Fred Melamed

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told…

— Peter Temple

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

— Nicole Krauss

Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the…

— Val Kilmer