To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.' — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers. — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we… — Kevin Eubanks Copy Share Image
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most… — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
“After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have… — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
The boy detective thinks, The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes.… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
“Being a homicide detective can be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair,… — Anonymous 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
“Detectives and policemen, as a class, are athletic men. They like games and sports and their minds and inclinations are healthy. They… — Cornelius Willemse Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked… — Kool Keith Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science… — Thomas Jane Copy Share Image
“There are very good reasons why neither doctors nor detectives should work on cases too close to home. It warps perspective.” — J.A. Jance Copy Share Image
Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed." "Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something." Andrea held her hand… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both… — David Rumelhart Copy Share Image
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
![“Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7” quote by John Sandford](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/887/john-sandford-5843_clerks_gonna-rain-like-a-cow-pissin-on-a-flat-r_12063.png)
![“I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].” quote by Christopher Bollen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/622/christopher-bollen-9436_book_i-also-wonder-why-is-it-that-so-many-of_2589092.jpg)
![“It was the first time I worked with Matthew McConaughey [in the True Detective].They're fun guys [with Woody Harrelson]. They don't take life at all too seriously, but yet they take their work very seriously. And both of them are just so committed to character and the story.” quote by Michelle Monaghan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b5b/michelle-monaghan-9225_character_it-was-the-first-time-i-worked-with-matt_1262266.png)
![“[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in his monologues. I think on those days, he [Woody Harrelson] really had to stay in the zone. Because there's a certain cadence in which that character speaks and talks about life…” quote by Michelle Monaghan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/371/michelle-monaghan-9225_able_true-detective-is-an-intense-show-even-i_2134925.jpg)
![“The detective story, as created by Poe, is something as specialised and as intellectual as a chess problem, whereas the best English detective fiction has relied less on the beauty of the mathematical problem and much more on the intangible human element. [...] In The Moonstone the mystery is…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e7b/t-s-eliot-2-1761_detection_the-detective-story-as-created-by-poe-is_1679578.jpg)
![“I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems…” quote by Stephen King](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2d0/stephen-king-13_asks_i-have-always-felt-a-little-bit-uncomfor_2204674.jpg)
