Detective Quotes

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

A really good detective never gets married.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.

I think like a detective.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.