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There's an overlap between social-realist fiction and crime fiction - a sweet spot there.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Between Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Overlap Spot Sweet

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I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

~Daniel Woodrell

Topics: Always Crime Crime Fiction Democracy Fiction Good Insistence Just Kind Like Muscle Narrative Notion Principle Punch Really Root Underlying

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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Certain Come Crime Crime Fiction Disgusted Easier Entertained Expect Fiction Good Graphic Graphic Novels Know Much Novels Parameters Readers Really Respond Rules Something Them Then Those Trick Very Wanting Well You

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I'd read so much right-wing crime fiction where they find the evidence and shoot the bad guy - I thought there must be another approach.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Another Approach Bad Bad Guy Crime Crime Fiction Evidence Fiction Find Guy Much Must Read Right-Wing Shoot Thought Where

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I'm not much of a plotter. I start off with an inciting incident, and in classic crime fiction what happens is that all the action flows from that incident. It's very comfy when it all ties up and feels like a complete universe, but my stuff doesn't always work that way.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Action Always Classic Complete Crime Crime Fiction Feels Fiction Flows Happens Incident Like Much Off Start Stuff Ties Universe Up Very Way Work

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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Crime Crime Fiction Darfur Fiction Interested Mysteries People Quite Reading

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Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Crime Crime Fiction Crimes Deserve Fiction Get History Social Societies

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My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

~Diane Setterfield

Topics: Countries Crime Crime Fiction Exploring Fiction Led Liking Literary Me Same Scandinavian Writers

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So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

~Donna Leon

Topics: Against Contemporary Crime Crime Fiction Fiction Much Obsessed Painful Particularly Read Violence Women

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History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns - gasp - describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

~Edward M. Lerner

Topics: About Background Crime Crime Fiction Describe Expect Fiction Forensics Historical Historical Fiction History Learn Mystery Police Procedure Readers Something Technology West Westerns

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