Elliott Colla Quotes About Crime

• Los árabes no hacen novela negra. Yo leo novela negra y leo literatura árabe, y ojalá hubiera podido leer esta novela en árabe.

  Elliott Colla

  Wish, Fiction, Literature

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Why is thinking about crime or imagining crime so goddamn central to pop culture? It doesn't matter whether it's American TV or British TV. And there's entire sections of bookstores devoted to crime.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Bookstores, Culture

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want to get beyond just speaking to other Middle East scholars, so I'm happy about that. But this was, nonetheless, a novel I wish I got to read in Arabic and translate.

  Elliott Colla

  Book, Wish, Crime

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com