“Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être .]” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van,… — Alexander McCall Smith 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
I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
I know who I am. And after all these years, there's a victory in that. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
It is difficult to distinguish deduction from what in other circumstances is called problem-solving. And concept learning, inference, and reasoning by analogy… — Frank Smith 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
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
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy. — Rex Stout 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
It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to… — Patti Smith 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
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
I found out that detectives are really good dressers. I'm not even exaggerating. The woman I interviewed had these fantastic fuschia suede… — Kristin Lehman Copy Share Image
“Jensen looked concerned. "I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better?" He glanced over at Vanelli and got an… — Katherine Bayless Copy Share Image
I confess I prefer to engage with pictures which I've chosen myself out of the welter of unidentified pictures, without the intrusion… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time with a real detective, a lady detective inspector who was the only female detective inspector in… — Emily Mortimer 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
I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers. — Walter Mosley 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
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or… — Michael Ealy Copy Share Image
Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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