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The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Awards Continent Coolest Crime Crime Fiction Definitely Entire Fiction Given Kelly Only Think You

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Crime fiction, especially noir and hardboiled, is the literature of the proletariat.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Literature Noir Proletariat

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In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.

~Adrian Mckinty

Topics: About Become Come Could Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Find Had Just Life Little May Misfortune Novel Place Section Speaks Talks Way Where You Your Yours

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Writing books that people want to read is helpful - my most successful book is my only police procedural, a very popular subgenre of the very popular crime fiction genre.

~Allan Guthrie

Topics: Book Books Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Helpful Most Only People Police Popular Read Successful Very Want Writing

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Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

~Andrew Vachss

Topics: Anyone Anything Books Change Closer Commonly Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Genre Look More Promoting Says Should Social Social Change Take Who Wrong

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Traditionally in crime fiction, women exist as a bedroom convenience or to screw up in order that the plot may progress. I wanted no part of that.

~Ann Maxwell

Topics: Bedroom Convenience Crime Crime Fiction Exist Fiction May Order Part Plot Progress Screw Up Wanted Women

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I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.

~Anthony Geary

Topics: Before Big Big Fan Book Breakfast Crime Crime Fiction Fan Favorite Fiction Get Go Huge Library Lovely Maybe Off Salmon Scandinavian Smoked Some Take Up

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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.

~Camilla Lackberg

Topics: Across Available Become Crime Crime Fiction English Fiction Generation Great Great Success Many Now Rightfully Scandinavian Success Swedish Whole Whom World Writers

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The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

~Camilla Lackberg

Topics: Crime Crime Fiction Environment Exception Fiction More Pace Slower Swedish Think Use I Think

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Hardboiled crime fiction came of age in 'Black Mask' magazine during the Twenties and Thirties. Writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler learnt their craft and developed a distinct literary style and attitude toward the modern world.

~Charles Frazier

Topics: Age Attitude Black Came Craft Crime Crime Fiction Developed Distinct Fiction Learnt Like Literary Magazine Mask Modern Modern World Raymond Style Thirties Toward Twenties World Writers

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