Crime Fiction Quotes
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Crime Fiction Quotes & Sayings
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I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime
— Andrew Hixson
I hate unbreakable alibis--they are usually the first to crack. --Hugo Anstead — Jennifer A. Girardin
Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.
— Mark Billingham
Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.
— Elliott Colla
The smell of beer surrounded him in a cloud as if he'd been doused in Eau de Frat Boy cologne.
— B.V. Lawson
Before man can explore outer space he should first learn to explore the Inner Space of his mind.
— Merlin Fraser
Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.
— Sophie Hannah
The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.
— Jess C. Scott
I started to drink heavily, comfortably caught in the tentacle-like clutches of alcohol.
— Keith Steinbaum
Life, like that water droplet, is everlasting and imperishable. There is only a transition, never an end !
— Rajib Mukherjee
We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.
— John D. MacDonald
I've always said women are vicious creatures - Detective Zach Grimes
— Lauren Bradshaw
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
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
Blood doesn't speak of its owner.
— Mita Jain
My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.
— Diane Setterfield
Please don't complicate the investigation by offering an explanation that might actually be true.--Marjorie Branell-Markson — Jennifer A. Girardin
The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon. — Martin Hopkins
There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.
— Cornell Woolrich
Everything begins with chioce.
— S.J. Wardell
This wasn't the last of it. Now that Finia was carrying his baby, they would be together forever, whether she liked it or not.
— Yawatta Hosby
Whose Daddy's Little Girl Now?
— Lauren Bradshaw
The Professor is coming...
— M.K. Hopkins
February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked.
— Mary Papas
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
— Donna Brown
Regress towards progress - Dr Wannamaker
— Lauren Bradshaw
My name's Alis K. From now on you will be Willy. Come on, let's push the bicycles for a bit."Ingrid aka 'Alis K'
The Informer — Steen Langstrup
Jesus honey, your husband ain't dead, he's in hiding. He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin
— Nina D'Angelo
Both men were pictures of the kind of grief that cauterizes open wounds in memory and turns them into black scars.
— B.V. Lawson
Listen, we got two stiffs and a river of red in a villa in Herne Bay ...
— Rhys Chamberlain
She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out
— Saira Viola
The northern star changes its position every ten thousand years, but friendships can last for all eternity.- RJPeters — R.J. Peters
The morning drizzle tightened the District's notorious braided-knot commute into a noose of traffic. - Scott Drayco
— B.V. Lawson
Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign.
— B.V. Lawson
The sliver of sun turned water crystals among the coal-colored clouds into the halo of a sundog.
— B.V. Lawson
People responded to body language without even thinking. It was important to get it absolutely right.
— Sara Sheridan
Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter
— Saira Viola
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.
— Camilla Lackberg
She was a tornado in a skirt.
— B.V. Lawson
It's only crazy if we fail.
— Henry Mosquera
It was like a commercial for laundry detergent or tampons or a prescription medication with death listed as a possible side effect.
— Carolyn Lee Adams
I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd. — Steen Langstrup
Cherchez la femme, Bucky. Remember that.
— James Ellroy
Moriston House is really quite beautiful. No wonder everyone wants to be murdered here.--Roberta "Bobbie" Aldridge — Jennifer A. Girardin
the influence of organised crime reaches into the economy, our politics and everyday life- dongri to dubai
— S. Hussain Zaidi
I came, I saw, I concurred...
— Darren E. Laws
Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
— Mark Billingham
When you think about the period in which Agatha Christie's crime novels were written, they are actually quite edgy for the time.
— Sara Sheridan
In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter.
— B. Barmanbek
Thank God! Those prayers were answered!
— Jeannie Walker
Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed.
— S.W. Frank
She was a cute as a washtub.
— Raymond Chandler
Had a big trial. It was like an Errol Flynn movie.
— Jeannie Walker
After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.
— Brian Azzarello
I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.
— Karin Slaughter
They shared a doom against which virtue was no defense
— Truman Capote
What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.
— Jim McGrath
For every criminal mastermind, there were ten cretins: the cruel algebra of intelligence applied across the masses.
— John Nardizzi
More wisdom is contained in the best crime fiction than in philosophy. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Live life to the fullest and never forget the people that supported you along the way.
— Dorothy W. Cosey
Because I want to have sex with himand because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott
May they run free forever and grow back their limbs!
— Henry Mosquera
Maybe these dreams of ours just floats away. Here we go again ... changin' face.
— Randolph Randy Camp
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.
— Denise Mina
