Megan Abbott Quotes

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don't know why people love shows about crime so much.

I read true crime books, and I read when people do case studies of stuff. I'm into books like that. Case studies or forensics or murder - all that good stuff.

I am really into crime documentaries.

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.

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.

I read a lot about serial killers.

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.

True crime has long been a passion for me, but I'm also a sucker for biographies, particularly of politicians, writers, or Hollywood icons.

I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

Like so many other bored teens, I was a bored teen with a hobby. The only difference was mine was obsessing about crime.

True crime has always been popular.

It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.

True crime is not for everybody.

I'm actually a huge fan, I guess you could say, obsessed, with True Crime and the supernatural.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

I don't like things about serial killers. There's so much serial killer information out there in documentaries constantly. A lot of it's just sort of gratuitous or it's almost like pornographic, really. There's no reason for it being shown.

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

I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest.

I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.

Since 1966, hundreds of books have been published that follow murderers along their paths of destruction. Every serial killer, it seems, now has a biographer or two.

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