Hardboiled Detective Quotes

In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.

I'm somewhere between a gumshoe and a journalist. A writer, not a symbol.

If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

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

George V. Higgins's 'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' (1970) added an extra literary layer to the con novel; James Crumley's 'The Last Good Kiss' (1978) influenced countless writers and will be remembered forever for its opening line, quoted often in obituaries of the author.

Going back to the noir fiction of the 30s, 40s and 50s. It's very contemporary.

I would love to write more about my hardboiled gumshoe on Mars, Alex Lomax.

A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence on writing style. I was completely in love with the way the man wrote.