Karen Kilgariff Quotes

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

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

My guilty pleasure is watching the Investigation Discovery channel.

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

I am really into crime documentaries.

'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

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 watch a lot of true crime on TV.

True crime is not for everybody.

Everyone is doing forensics.

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

I was very influenced by films and books like 'Serpico,' 'The French Connection,' and 'Prince of the City.' They were some of the reasons I became a crime writer.

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

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

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 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.

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

I will live in TV Land watching 'Columbo.' I also like my 'Forensic Files,' all of that true crime.

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

My novels are never directly based on a true crime incident, but I want to get the details right. I want to know how homicide detectives think, what a SWAT team might do to prepare.

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

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.