Top 100 Crime Fiction Crime Quotes
#1. Eamonn Carr was coming in with tea on a tray, and what looked like home-made biscuits. Paula took her drink gratefully, but saw that Guy just sipped his and put it down on a well-placed coaster.
Claire McGowan
#2. Last time I was on the welcome Wagon, I was holding some guy by the balls for 15 minutes while the inspector explained why should leave (Birmingham) and go home... It were really painful.
I bet it was.
'Yeah I got terrible cramp in me fingers, but he were very attentive.
Jim McGrath
#3. You'll be very close to him when you shoot him. So shove the pistol in his face and pull the trigger instantly."
Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer
Steen Langstrup
#4. Somebody had angrily scrawled DOPE HOUSE with a broad Sharpie above the apartment 6G peephole in the Truman Houses.
"The quality goes in before the name goes on," the CSU tech standing next to Billy said before entering the scene.
Harry Brandt
#5. I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?
Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.
Steen Langstrup
#6. I needed to know, Jesse. I needed to get inside his head. To find this son of a bitch, I need to get inside his head. - Stephanie Carovella
Nina D'Angelo
#8. How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take.
Yawatta Hosby
#9. The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.
- RJPeters
R.J. Peters
#10. When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
James Crumley
#11. The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco
B.V. Lawson
#12. I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.
Jeannie Walker
#13. Distance and time and a whitewashed mind hadn't kept a child from growing, from existing, from demanding a place on this earth.
V.S. Kemanis
#14. To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.
Chris Womersley
#15. What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.
Jim McGrath
#16. The first teacher, the first kiss, and the first crime. I've always been hindered by my dislike for repetition. The first time you do anything, it's creative, but from then on it's just work.
Elizaveta Mikhailichenko
#17. It's funny how you take things like electricity for granted. You hit the button that turns everything on and it just comes on. You get used to that and it just works every single time. So what happens when it suddenly doesn't? things very well could get messy.
Robin Burks
#18. We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
John D. MacDonald
#19. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
Camilla Lackberg
#20. I enjoyed the freedom they gave me - to write about almost any damned thing that came into my mind, whether it was crime, science fiction, western, fantasy or sports.
Norbert Davis
#21. Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners.
James Ellroy
#22. I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being honest when I say I truly never wanted to become a murderer.
Simon Kernick
#23. In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting - I distill the essence of the story until it's only the jewels of the tale - and leave in only the most compelling and exciting parts.
Hank Phillippi Ryan
#24. The worst kind of victim was the kind that was aware of nothing.
B. Barmanbek
#25. Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face.
Randolph Randy Camp
#26. It's more like he was an ant in the land of elephants. Nobody would notice his presence, no matter how much noise he might make.
B. Barmanbek
#27. The built-in form is a window frame. You can use this genre [crime fiction] to go where you want to go, and explore what you want to explore. In some ways it gives you a lot of freedom because you have a framework readers are looking for.
Michael Connelly
#28. 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 the craft, I think that it can actually work against genuine suspense.
Mark Billingham
#29. For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.
Marcia Clark
#30. That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.
#ShadowofSadd #Books
Steen Langstrup
#31. Martyrdom is a lonely business.
Jukebox
Saira Viola
#32. Sometimes a girl's gotta be bad to be good.
Murder in the Dog Park
Jill Yesko
#33. When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.
Michael Connelly
#34. Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.
Jeannie Walker
#35. One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture; A pale blue eye with a film over it.
Keith Steinbaum
#36. Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars.
B.V. Lawson
#38. Only a few can survive and face reality without a vice.
Jacob Wild
#39. Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.
P.D. James
#40. At that exact moment, 6-0-0, the sun climbed over the skyline of oaks, revealing its full summer angry-god self. Its reflection flared across the river toward our house, a long, blaring finger aimed at me through our frail bedroom curtains. Accusing: You have been seen. You will be seen.
Gillian Flynn
#41. Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
Mark Billingham
#42. As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.
B. Barmanbek
#43. 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.
Karin Slaughter
#44. This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.
B. Barmanbek
#45. Sneaking out at night. You think you're so clever, but you're not. Either you're a saboteur, Johannes, or you've got a mistress.
The Reverend's wife, Grete
The Informer
Steen Langstrup
#46. It's getting a little chilly in here! Why don't we sit by the fireplace and I'll tell you the story of how I single handedly killed the Medina boys!
Angel Ramon Medina
#47. She looked beautiful,standing there barefoot in her faded jeans. I wanted to take her in my arms, and lift her, and carry her into some untroubled future.
Instead, I left her where she was. That's not the world we live in, she'd said, and how right she was,
Stephen King
#48. In near panic, I craned my neck to gaze over the cabin's roofline a bursting fireball.
Ed Lynskey
#49. Most crime fiction, no matter how 'hard-boiled' or bloodily forensic, is essentially sentimental, for most crime writers are disappointed romantics.
John Banville
#50. With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
John Banville
#51. 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
#52. The only thing altruism will get you here is a boot stomping on your head.
Henry Mosquera
#53. The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Jacques Barzun
#54. Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.
B. Barmanbek
#55. 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
#56. Finia glanced towards her bedroom, wishing the darkness would swallow her whole.
Yawatta Hosby
#57. Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
Karin Slaughter
#58. February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked.
Mary Papas
#59. Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.
Ken Bruen
#60. 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
#61. Every happy moments looks perfect till it gets messy
Sheeja Jose
#62. 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
#63. She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.
Richard Stark
#64. 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
#65. What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
Donna Brown
#66. Sometimes there's just no justice. The bad guys do live, if not happily ever after, then certainly conspicuously.
Ken Bruen
#67. I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
A.A. Bell
#68. Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
Rajib Mukherjee
#69. Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.
Jerrie Brock
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.
Poppy Z. Brite
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."
Richard Dawkins
#78. the influence of organised crime reaches into the economy, our politics and everyday life- dongri to dubai
S. Hussain Zaidi
#79. Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.
--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge
Jennifer A. Girardin
#80. Its aura distorts hard edges. Shimmering vortices of discoloration boil off, swirling, licking the
cold night air with bright spectral fire. Violence and death, this one's still hot.
Michael Allan Scott
#81. Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
Ed Lynskey
#82. You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Jeannie Walker
#83. Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.
Charles Frazier
#84. There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that's what I tell myself when I can't sleep at night.
Judy Penz Sheluk
#85. Either I've got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I've grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I'd better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.
R.W. Rivers
#86. I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime
Andrew Hixson
#87. This was a crime of passion, but unlike most crimes of passion, it had been meticulously and diabolically well-planned.
Mark Zero
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Tony Black is the Tom Waits of Crime Fiction, yes, that good.
Ken Bruen
#93. If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane.
ARKOPAUL
#94. 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
#95. You can only rise so far by climbing on others' shoulders, you know.
B. Barmanbek
#96. I felt a little bad about killing the man, but what choice did I have?" ... Louie Morelli, "The Prince of Mafia Princes.
Patricia Bellomo
#97. Blood doesn't speak of its owner.
Mita Jain
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Foreign food isn't really my thing. I tasted whale once, and I was sick for a week.
Steen Langstrup
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