Megan Abbott Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.

I watch a lot of true crime on TV.

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.

True crime has always been popular.

I am really into crime documentaries.

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

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

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

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

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

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well.

I read a lot of true crime growing up - 'The Stranger Beside Me' by Ann Rule about Ted Bundy.

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

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

I've consumed true crime since first discovering 'Helter Skelter' by Vincent Bugliosi in a used bookstore at age 9 or 10 and staring in fascination and horror at the crime-scene photos in the middle.

'Forensic Files' is big in our house.