Quotes about crime-novels
crime-novels unhappy make-you-happy
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. Agatha Christie
crime-novels crime prophet
Michael Koryta is an amazingly talented writer, and I rank The Prophet as one of the sharpest and superbly plotted crime novels I've read in my life. Donald Ray Pollock
crime-novels serious bookstores
Ever since the '70s, Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo were the godfathers of Scandinavian crime. They broke the crime novel in Scandinavia from the kiosks and into the serious bookstores. Jo Nesbo
crime-novels names fiction
Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.
crime-novels novelists fiction
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what Tolstoy is to the Russian novel and what Beethoven is to music. James Ellroy
crime-novels crime thrillers
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels. Kate Mosse
crime-novels giving looks
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader. Michael Koryta
crime-novels flip burgers
I'm good with a grill. I like to make cheeseburgers - I once read in a David Goodis crime novel that you're only supposed to flip a burger once. Noah Baumbach
crime-novels crime novel
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels. Megan Abbott
crime-novels detectives detective-work
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective. Michael Connelly
crime-novels favourite genre
The crime novel has always been my favourite genre. Sara Paretsky