Detective Quotes

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

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

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

I think like a detective.

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

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

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.

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.

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