If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“Are you sure I’m the lead detective on this case? All I seem to be doing is watching you have” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You dont have to be a detective, just to detect it. any man lie to your face how you respect it. — Young Jeezy Copy Share Image
At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.' — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.” — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
My first films were comedy, 'Murder By Death,' and 'The Cheap Detective.' But now they won't think of me as a comedian.… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
“It reinforces a sense of safety, even of pleasure, to know that murder is possible, just not here. At the start of… — Judith Flanders Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what… — Karla Crome Copy Share Image
“The first time we met I told you I was a detective. Get it through your lovely head. I work at it,… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I think the first thing is don't give up. If you love the craft. If you love being a detective and discovering… — Lin Shaye Copy Share Image
I think you want a little unofficial help. Three undetected murders in one year won't do, Lestrade. But you handled the Molesey… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“How could I tell Clarence that finding another dead body was anything but dreadful? On the contrary: it was thrilling; it was… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend… — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I figured you for a hooker." Lily blinked at him. Neither of them moved. Even Elvis quit singing... "A hooker?...What a dilemma… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
“Pull yourself together, Detective. You're embarrassing yourself, and more imprtant, you're embarrassing me." "They're going to do it outside. In public." "So… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
“So, what if your entire body was, oh I don’t know, dropped into molten metal?” Nick laughed. “Like the end of Terminator… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“Good, evil, these are human concepts, ways people have for understanding what it means to be alive,” Nick said. “Before people came… — Abramelin Keldor Copy Share Image
“1. The criminal must be mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader… — Ronald A. Knox Copy Share Image
“She could kill someone else. Who’s to know?” Once again the detective turned and squinted out across the river. “It’s a problem,”… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
“We played a couple games of pool and shared a basket of fried shrimp and onion rings. He was a good player,… — Kendric Neal Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“The truth must be quite plain, if one could just clear away the litter.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Relationship are about Trust. If you have to play Detective, Then it's time to move on.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective. — Joe Gores Copy Share Image
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