Quotes About Megan Abbott

I think watching TV has influenced my books, but I don't think writing TV has.

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a terrible book.

The speed of the TV stuff vs. the self-imposed pace of novel writing has been a big adjustment, and going back and forth often feels like whiplash.

It is not aloofness, superiority. It's a protection. Who in this ravaged battlefield doesn't want to gather close her comrades?

Maybe the ending was the best part - the only time you saw the beauty in it all.

blood slips down her chin, and I start to feel dizzy. I look