Detective Quotes

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.

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.

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.

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.

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

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

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

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.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

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

I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.

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

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

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.

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.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

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

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

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

A really good detective never gets married.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

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 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.

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.

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.

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.

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