Quotes About Crime Fiction Genre

#1. The crime fiction genre offers the writer infinite diversity of theme and treatment.

Stanley Ellin

#2. 33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.

Donald Shoup

#3. The mainstream has lost its way. Crime fiction is an objective, realistic genre because it's about the real world, real bodies really being killed by somebody. And this involves the investigator in trying to understand the society that the person lived in.

Michael Dibdin

#4. You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. A little person in a little place can use a little thing, perform a
little task, and receive a great reward.

Jack Hyles

#6. My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

Jennifer Lawrence

#7. Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

Andrew Vachss

#8. Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.

Paula Hawkins

#9. When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

Alex George

#10. God, did they know? A year made the world of difference! This was one more year I could be with Jason, one more year I could live! I signed up for three hundred years ... not three hundred and one!

Beth Revis

#11. The data-processing system invented by the Sumerians is called 'writing'.

Yuval Noah Harari

#12. Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.

Daniel Craig

#13. Did you know the English wouldn't dream of putting olive oil on food? They use it for ear infections. Freddie told me."
"Yes, I've heard their cuisine hasn't evolved since the Middle Ages.

Glenn Haybittle

#14. 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

#15. You're beautiful, Replied the fly, to the spider.

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#16. Our culture is too obsessed with outward appearance, age and status. Love is what matters.

Helen Fielding

#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. 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

#19. I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.

Jhumpa Lahiri