Quotes About Crime

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me to read bad literature. I was not allowed to read Nancy Drew or books like that. I often say to him that me becoming a crime author is both a way of pleasing him and annoying him.

There is sometimes a feeling in crime fiction that good writing gets in the way of story. I have never felt that way. All you have is language. Why write beneath yourself? It's an act of respect for the reader as much as yourself.

My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn't necessary. If that's all you have to offer as a writer, perhaps you're in the wrong job.

I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.

The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.

I've never been robbed in person, but I've gotten my car broken into a couple of times.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The great thing about America is I always come back with more books and more tip-offs of who to read. It's a country in love with crime fiction.

It feels fantastic to be a part of 'Fear Files.' I am having a great time shooting for the show as it is not just another horror or crime show.

You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.

'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I do say that I am in favor of the return of the guillotine and that is for the worst of the worst of the guilty.

Everybody has a gun in their car in Detroit.

Those who commit gun crimes and those who enable them should know this: We're coming after you.

Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

There's a real gun culture in the U.K., for those who don't know. It's very real.