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
Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to… — Raymond Chandler 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
Andrea raised her eyebrows. "Look at you, all high-speed." "Yeah, you'd think I was a detective or something." Andrea held her hand… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both… — David Rumelhart 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
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
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
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I loved Sherlock Holmes. I'm not interested in crimes. I'm interested in the mind of the detective… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's… — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity… — Celestine Sibley Copy Share Image
“After a while I got hungry and went to the kitchen. There was nothing to eat. I drank another beer and looked… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser 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
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
Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs,… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks. Or it’s… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at… — Jennifer Estep 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
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in… — Michelle Monaghan 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
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at. — Matthew McConaughey 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
“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
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro 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
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'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
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock 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
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
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head. — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going… — Nina Tassler Copy Share Image
I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
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