Detective Quotes · Page 10

“It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.”

— Jon Michaelsen

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

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down…

— Michael Connelly

I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

This idea that you can watch a show like 'True Detective,' and it was awesome, but is it really ruined for you…

— Carlton Cuse

It's hard because there's a part of me that wants 'True Detective' to win every award we're nominated for. But I'm a…

— Cary Fukunaga

“Have you ever wondered, Dogger," I asked, "if wickedness is a chemical state?" "Indeed I have, Miss Flavia," he said. "I have…

— Alan Bradley

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on…

— John Nettles

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked…

— Clint Walker

I remember watching 'Colombo' a lot with my dad. That was one of the first detective shows I remember watching. And I…

— Stephanie Beatriz

I used to think the store detective had followed me all the way home and would knock on the door and go,…

— Maxine Peake

I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter…

— Carol Higgins Clark

Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that…

— James Ellroy

I liked dark, urban stories like 'Peter Gunn,' which was a detective series on network TV when I was a little boy.…

— Michael Emerson

I once started a detective story to make money—but I couldn't get the murder to take place! At the end of three…

— Mary McCarthy

I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But…

— Richard K. Morgan

I think every actor fantasizes about a show where you get to play several characters in one piece and not just Detective…

— Betty Gilpin

“If everything comes in your way just the way you wanted them to ,then you're probably in the wrong lane.”

— Arkopaul

Delving into history is not an escape for me. I'm like a detective, sniffing for clues with a terrier-like excitement.

— David Starkey

“Think of Area X as a murderer we’re trying to catch.” “Oh great, that’s just great, now we’ve got a detective on…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

— John Thaw

to keep believing in life, until you're sure of death, it's the way a detective should be." - Kogoro Mouri, Detective Conan

— Gosho Aoyama

“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.”

— William Kely McClung

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun,…

— John Green

“I must say, detective…you have really good taste in women. Your first wife was hot, but this new piece of ass you…

— Bianca Pheasant

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

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight…

— Nathaniel Rich

“Bat stood in the open door and said "I am a crime scene unit detective from the New York City Police Department,…

— Warren Ellis

“Detective work is ninety-nine percent boring and one percent the kind of excitement no one should ever experience.”

— Marshall Thornton

I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

— Tamzin Outhwaite

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data…

— David McCandless

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

The 'River Monsters' episodes acted a bit like a whodunit - there was a crime scene, maybe someone had been pulled under,…

— Jeremy Wade

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers.…

— Albert Brooks

There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my…

— Helen Baxendale

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal…

— Mary Lee Settle

“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.”

— Jane Sunday

Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

— Elif Batuman

“Val had a horrific image of Lisa peering through a magnifying glass like a grotesquely teenybopper version of Nancy Drew — in jeggings.”

— Nenia Campbell