Don DeLillo Quotes

I never killed anyone. I avoid going over that edge by writing about a guy who has taken a flying leap over it.

Crime fiction has always been what I wanted to read, so when I sat down to write my first book, it was naturally the way that I was going to go.

Everything has to do with murder.

Murder had a blood red door on the other side of which was everything unimaginable to everyone.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

Wherever he goes, whatever he does, he will always see that word: murder—immortally inscribed upon the pediment of that vast slaughterhouse—humanity.

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three chapters I was still describing the characters and the milieu, so I thought, this is not going to work. No corpse!

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked.

After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Of course, I write crime stories, and I have to describe violence and the aftermath of violence.

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention.

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.

Crime fiction is a way of satisfying that nosy need to know.

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

America is still the No. 1 killer in the world.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.