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11 quotes by Natsuo Kirino

Natsuo Kirino (桐野 夏生, Kirino Natsuo?, born October 7, 1951 in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture) is the pen name of Mariko Hashioka, a Japanese novelist and a leading figure in the recent boom of female writers of Japanese detective fiction.
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One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan... →

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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.

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The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open... →

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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything... →

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It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of... →

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A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

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I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than... →

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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being... →

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