What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James 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 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
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
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to… — Ruskin Bond 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
“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and… — Agatha Christie 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 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
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.” — 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
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
“Tim says he never suggested a historical romance. If I did write one nobody would read it. But why not try my… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Poe had invented a genre—the detective story—that played upon but in the end relieved his readers’ urban anxieties. Social order was possible… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler 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
“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
“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
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie 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
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer 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
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
You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader… — Christopher Bollen 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
“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found. — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never cared about… — George R.R. Martin 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
“I told you there was nothing to it,” said Arbuthnot apologetically. “But you know what it is—early hours of the morning—everything very… — Agatha Christie 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
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