I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here. — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“An unmarked cop car carrying Mitch Lawson and Brock Lucas, both detectives with the DPD.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said,… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
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
“(She’d always wondered, or even daydreamed, what it was like to actually work with great detectives, rather than just read about them.… — Genevieve Cogman 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
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its… — Stephen Leacock 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
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 started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
At bottom, I mean profoundly at bottom, the FBI has nothing to do with Communism, it has nothing to do with catching… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The more I hung out with detective squads, the more there was always one guy or two guys or a woman who… — Richard Price Copy Share Image
You just work really hard and scrutinize. What is it called in politics? "Opposition research"? You want to do the detective work… — James Ponsoldt 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
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
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
“ Let's be detectives when we grow up," suggested Douglas. " No," said William. " It's more fun bein' the man that… — Richmal Crompton 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
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
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
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
The longer I live, the longer I realize that batting is more a mental matter than it is physical. The ability to… — Ty Cobb Copy Share Image
So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting… — Nina Tassler 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
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Personally, I like those mystery shows. Ever since I was a kid I've been crazy about blood and detectives and murder. Maybe… — Jack Paar 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
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that… — Umberto Eco 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
The instant they say something you don't expect or already know, you should drop into detective mode. — Emmett Shear 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
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
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
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