Detectives Quotes

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

— Colin Farrell

“watching the two detectives from the next room.”

— Michael Connelly

Literary critics make natural detectives.

— Anonymous

I think like a detective.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Muerte sin resurrección”

— Anonymous

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

— Matthew McConaughey

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

— James Ellroy

The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.

— Jane Roberts

If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'

— Nic Pizzolatto

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

— Raymond Chandler

I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.

— Michelle Monaghan

I think if you need to use a gun you're doing a lousy job as a detective.

— Joe Gores

“You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they…

— Agatha Christie

Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally,…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my…

— Sophie Calle

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of…

— Daniel H. Wilson

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

— Mason Cooley

“In books, even the very best boy detectives are dismissed with a laugh. In real life, they're sent to psychologists.”

— Aaron Starmer

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going…

— Ben Wheatley

“I couldn't have made a better shot, if I had been one of those detectives who see a chap walking along the…

— P.G. Wodehouse

The level of backlash [for the True Detective] was kind of fascinating and not fully shocking because I know what the world…

— Colin Farrell

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery…

— Carolyn Wheat

We're all like detectives. We want to figure things out. Life, you know, we want to figure out life, and we want…

— David Lynch

I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give…

— John Nettles

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

Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing…

— Billy Bob Thornton

“Detectives and policemen, as a class, are athletic men. They like games and sports and their minds and inclinations are healthy. They…

— Cornelius Willemse

Infrareds on little people standing with some big heads, I was Captain Kirk, walkin' with a black t-shirt. LAPD, the nurse asked…

— Kool Keith

I've been very lucky at what's happened in my career to date, but playing something as far from me as possible is…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would…

— Stephen King

The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was…

— Cornell Woolrich

“I pulled the MG in beside him at the curb and he got in. "This thing ain't big enough for either one…

— Robert B. Parker

“Dr. Watson's summary list of Sherlock Holmes's strengths and weaknesses: "1. Knowledge of Literature: Nil. 2. Knowledge of Philosophy: Nil. 3. Knowledge…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.

— Douglas Adams

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie