The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. — Rex Stout 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
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
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
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Detectives are only human; we're not Gods that know everything. When detectives tell their theory, in reality, most are rather anxious. Thinking… — Gosho Aoyama Copy Share Image
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery… — Carolyn Wheat Copy Share Image
You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives. — Usain Bolt Copy Share Image
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout 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
I've intentionally played things very straight with Batman. I didn't want to be too jarring for fans. Zero Year accommodates a bit… — Greg Capullo 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
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh 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
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as… — Paul Guilfoyle 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
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
Human beings are like detectives. They love a mystery. They love going where the mystery pulls them. What we don't like is… — David Copy Share Image
