“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
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
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a… — Christopher Bollen 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
“ Lady Sylvia McCordle: Mr Weissman -- Tell us about the film you're going to make. Morris Weissman: Oh, sure. It's called… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living … — Rex Stout 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
Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there… — Umberto Eco 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
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
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
“He began as a minor imitator of Fitzgerald, wrote a novel in the late twenties which won a prize, became dissatisfied with… — Barry N. Malzberg Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
The psychological detective story in "Equus" made Peter Shaffer's name as a playwright. But it was his next play, "Amadeus," that cemented… — Bob Mondello Copy Share Image
