Rob Thomas Quotes

I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.

My husband asked me once why I read so many mysteries, and part of it is just intellectual, part of it is the joy of any good book, but part of it is the moral stakes there.

Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.

I love crime fiction, and I'm proud to be part of it, but I'm not without criticism for my own genre.

My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.

I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

Crime is the biggest genre in libraries and in bookshops, and it is hugely varied.

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

Allthough that doesn't happen often lately, I like to read exciting thrillers and those kinky magazines.

I got into reading a lot of noir and a lot of thrillers as well, and I really admired the plotting about those and the way that they can surprise you. And obviously to surprise people and to have twists in the tale, you have to plan quite carefully.

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.

I'm snobby about books that aren't crime fiction: if I start reading a literary novel and there's no mystery emerging in the first few pages, I'm like, 'Gah, this obviously isn't a proper book. Why would I want to carry on reading it?'

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.