Crime Fiction Quotes
Crime fiction has always done more than entertain. These quotes describe the genre's pull toward the extremes of human behavior, its usefulness for exploring social issues the way classics like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' once did, and the unexpected demand crime writers face to be visible public figures rather than quiet observers. Another line reminds readers that pushing against polite convention is not limited to crime fiction alone, but the genre has always made a specialty of it.
Crime fiction quotes here treat the genre as a serious tool for examining violence, justice, and society, not just a source of plot twists and suspense.
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, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a...
Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.
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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 that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are...
I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.
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I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.
There are a number of writers who believe it is their duty to throw as many curve balls at the reader as possible. To twist and twist again. These are the Chubby Checkers of crime fiction and, while I admire...
For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem...
Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Book Quotes
I think crime fiction is a great way to talk about social issues, whether 'To Kill A Mockingbird' or 'The Lovely Bones;' violence is a way to open up that information you want to get out to the reader.
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...
My senior year at College Park, University of Maryland, I took an elective class in crime fiction taught by Charles C. Mish. He turned me on in a big way to reading and books. I was lucky to have a...
I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.
Crime Quotes
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.
I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like...
People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.
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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.
