Megan Abbott Quotes

United States, Author
July 21, 1971

Megan Abbott (born August 21, 1971) is an American author of crime fiction and a non-fiction analysis of hardboiled crime fiction. Her novels and short stories have drawn from and re-worked classic subgenres of crime writing, from a female perspective.

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.

Megan Abbott
- Writing
I think there are two prevailing views of the suburbs in the States: either they're this sort of tedious place, where everyone is the same, buys the same food and drives around in their little minivans, or the view is that the suburbs are extremely perverse in a humorous way.

Megan Abbott
- Food
- Humorous

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

Megan Abbott
I think it was Freud who said that we're all arrested at a certain age. For me, it was always 13.

Megan Abbott
- Age