“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.” — Elizabeth Savage Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a… — Mary Lavin 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 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
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
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would… — Anne Frank 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
“Do you mean to tell me, Superintendent, that this is one of those damned cases you get in detective stories where a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“It is to be feared that about a hundred detective stories have begun with the discovery that an American millionaire has been… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until… — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“...both Tom and I adore detective stories. Isn't that so, Tom?" [Lady Brace] "Right!" agreed her husband…"But they've got to be proper… — Carter Dickson Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for… — Vita Sackville-West 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 often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
If this "critical openminded attitude" ... is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch."… — Rupert Hart-Davis Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I once started a detective story to make moneybut I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“From what I've read of detective stories, inspectors always do want to drag the pond first.” — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
“You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski” — Laurie Stevens Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories. — Lennie James 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
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
![“...both Tom and I adore detective stories. Isn't that so, Tom?" [Lady Brace] "Right!" agreed her husband…"But they've got to be proper detective stories. They've got to present a tricky, highly sophisticated problem, which you're given fair opportunity to solve." "And," amplified Virginia, "no…” quote by Carter Dickson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae8/carter-dickson-39142_books_both-tom-and-i-adore-detective-stories-i_1313467.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/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/t-s-eliot-2-1761_detection_the-detective-story-as-created-by-poe-is_1679578.jpg)
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