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.
Natsuo Kirino
The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!
Evel Knievel
Inventing sources is not a crime in and of itself, although it certainly violates every code of journalistic ethics known to man. A criminal fraud... →
Brendan I. Koerner
Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
Michael Koryta
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only... →
Jonathan Kozol
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
Karl Kraus
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
Shia LaBeouf
Crime is sexy.
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why... →
Camilla Lackberg
The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.