Quotes About Crime fiction

but we don't know whether the killer writes." "Oh, nearly everyone does these days," said Fancourt. "The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

Robert Galbraith

Robert Galbraith

Judge Dee mystery novels

Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

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 lot of ground to cover, so I might as well begin.

Um dos poucos divertimentos intelectuais que ainda restam ao que ainda resta de intelectual na humanidade é a leitura de romances policiais.

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure: the mystery solved, justice delivered, roughly or otherwise.

Estoy seguro que a cualquiera le gusta un buen crimen, siempre que no sea la víctima

John Correli: Did you kill Mr Boz, Miss Tramell? Catherine: I'd have to be pretty stupid to write a book about killing and then kill him the way I described in my book. I'd be announcing myself as the killer. I'm not stupid.

But the thing is, you see -and to be honest, I don't like to mention this- I'm a bit short. There just aren't enough people getting murdered.

Crime fiction makes money. It may be harder for writers to get published, but crime is doing better than most of what we like to call CanLit. It's elementary, plot-driven, character-rich story-telling at its best.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

Don't you read mystery novels?" "Not very often. Anyway, what does that mean, 'mystery novel'? What is a 'detective novel'?

Sometimes I think 'The Wire' said it all, and I might as well not write any more crime novels.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

I not only read Raymond Chandler but read all the crime fiction classics. I was hooked.

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.

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.

Florida is a great place to set a novel.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

Crime writers, I've noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven't been caught yet!