I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard… — Sushant Singh Rajput Copy Share Image
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
“(She’d always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them.… — Genevieve Cogman Copy Share Image
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“I do not know whether it came from his own innate depravity or from the promptings of his master, but he was… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit… — Greg Capullo Copy Share Image
Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in. "This thing ain't big enough for either one… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
I began wanting to create a detective who really turned the tables on that image of women, to know that you could… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring… — Alan Sokal Copy Share Image
“Taylor and Fitz sat at a patio table in the back of Las Palmas. The front room was filled with giggling Vanderbilt… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and… — Kate Summerscale Copy Share Image
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
“In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.” — Aaron Starmer Copy Share Image
Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally,… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk.… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A lot of the appeal of internal medicine is Sherlockian—solving the case from the clues. We are detectives; we revel in the… — Lisa Sanders Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who… — Malik Yoba Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
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