Sergio Aragones Quotes

I adore Kate Atkinson, her literary as well as her crime output.

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

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

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

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.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him.

My whole reputation and creative thought as a novelist is really wrapped around Harry Bosch, so he's near and dear.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.

If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.

People like the Bosch books because they like Harry Bosch, not because the plots are fantastic.

I've developed this love of trashy Russian literature. There's a women's detective series that I was obsessed with for a while, written by Aleksandra Marinina, the former chief of police.

If one goes by my filmography, I have done several films of different genres.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.

Cormoran Strike is an amazing creation and I can't wait for his next outing. Strike is so instantly compelling that it's hard to believe this is a debut novel. I hope there are plenty more Cormoran Strike adventures to come. A beautifully written debut novel introducing one of the most unique and compelling detectives I've come across in years.

I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.

When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr.

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.

I think I'm out of crime fiction now, and I think the dividing line is American Tabloid.