Lily King Quotes

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.

Crime fiction is a genre for writing stories about people - about conflict, about guilt, about passion, about the human condition.

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

When I set out to write crime fiction, I didn't think to myself, 'I'm going to model myself on Agatha Christie' or 'I am going to be a crime writer in the Christie tradition'.

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.

I had done 12 little romance books, and I decided I wanted to move into crime fiction.

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.

I love adult thrillers and murder mysteries and everything like that.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

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

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

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

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

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.

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

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

I love crime series.

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

We tend to think of crime fiction as reading designed for entertainment - not education. It delivers an almost pure kind of readerly pleasure: the mystery solved, justice delivered, roughly or otherwise.