Best Crime Fiction Quotes

#1. There are criminals everywhere these days, you know. One might end up missing the police! Who would have thought that possible?
The Maid
The Informer by Steen Langtrup

Steen Langstrup

#2. Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.

B. Barmanbek

#3. The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Jacques Barzun

#4. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.

Henry Mosquera

#5. Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.

Ian Rankin

#6. Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.

Steen Langstrup

#7. They've also asked me now to start on another series that we're gonna do after this Frontier Earth. But it's not science fiction, it's more in the Mystery and Crime division and that's another area I'm very interested in.

Bruce Boxleitner

#8. It was one of those late summer days trying its best to convince everyone that winter would never seep through and ravage the earth.

A.J. Waines

#9. Blood doesn't speak of its owner.

Mita Jain

#10. I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.

Patricia Bellomo

#11. You can only rise so far by climbing on others' shoulders, you know.

B. Barmanbek

#12. Nothing is 'wrong' with me, Dan. What's wrong with you? she said in the same eerily quiet voice, dark eyes fixated on Dan, as she breathed heavily.

Martin Hopkins

#13. If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane.

ARKOPAUL

#14. Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.

Ken Bruen

#15. For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.

James Patrick Kelly

#16. I get very tired of violence in crime fiction. Maybe it is what life is like, but I don't want to do it in my books.

Ruth Rendell

#17. Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I

Harlan Ellison

#18. I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.

Anthony Geary

#19. More wisdom is contained in the best
crime fiction than in philosophy.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#20. 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.

Jo Nesbo

#21. They say it's always darkest before the dawn and it was pitch black by the time I arrived at the Marriott. However I still had a few bullets left for my deadbeat uncle that tried to stab me in the back.

Angel Ramon Medina

#22. What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.

Donna Brown

#23. I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.

Isaac Hempstead-Wright

#24. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves

Mike Bartos

#25. Flowers are fragile and ephemeral ... Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight ... and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai

Gosho Aoyama

#26. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.

Poppy Z. Brite

#27. 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.

Linwood Barclay

#28. 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 with that.

Kathy Reichs

#29. Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

Jerrie Brock

#30. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !

Rajib Mukherjee

#31. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!

A.A. Bell

#32. Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.

Ken Bruen

#33. When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

Sophie Hannah

#34. You're a crime fiction writer if...The injustices of this world boil your blood. You become a fucking supernova. So you write.

Verge Le Noir

#35. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

Richard Stark

#36. I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.

Catherine Astolfo

#37. Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy

Sheeja Jose

#38. Practically every fella that breaks the law has a danged good reason, to his own way of thinking, which makes every case exceptional, not just one or two. Take you, for example.

Jim Thompson

#39. Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Ken Bruen

#40. February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked.

Mary Papas

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

Karin Slaughter

#42. Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.

Yawatta Hosby