Detective Quotes

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

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.

I think like a detective.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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