At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
I haven't been part of the criminal world.
I have been addicted to crime since I was born. I was making up crime stories when I was a 4- or 5-year-old kid.
With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.
Crimes spring from fixed ideas.
There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don't recognise what I do is crime fiction.
Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.