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5 quotes by Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott (born 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, with a female twist.
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I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys... →

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I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

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I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

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When I was eight or nine, there was a very scary case of a guy who murdered four children in my community. I had no conscious memory of it, but now... →

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I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but... →

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