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
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. — Dashiell Hammett 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
“I have some crack sources—cops who call me, and say, “Hey, there’s a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat… — Kristi Belcamino Copy Share Image
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story,… — William Peter Blatty Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should… — Chester Himes 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
I was enamored of detectives as a teenager. I liked what they did - piecing things together, thinking about situations. But to… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lot of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical… — Gilbert N. Lewis Copy Share Image
Scientists are people of very dissimilar temperaments doing different things in very different ways. Among scientists are collectors, classifiers and compulsive tidiers-up;… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers...… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie 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
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
I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely… — John Banville Copy Share Image
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“I might not have gone but for you, and so have missed the finest study I have ever come across: a study… — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to… — Weston La Barre Copy Share Image
Your novels show only the tiniest fraction of detective work, the brilliant crime, the tantalizing clues, the dramatic chase, the final battle… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -… — Robert Cormier 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
Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability,… — Samuel Barnett 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
“Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ...… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked… — Clint Walker Copy Share Image
I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
I think people are tired of the CSI/SVU style of lurid and gory crime dramas. I believe there's a craving for lighter… — Carol Higgins Clark 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
![“Because I'm playing Dirk Gently [ in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], I'm so fond of Dirk. I really see Dirk's vulnerability, and you get that, more and more. You'll start to see a little bit more of Dirk's backstory, why he behaves the way he does, and why he's doing what he's doing. I…” quote by Samuel Barnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/111/samuel-barnett-15432_agency_because-i-m-playing-dirk-gently-in-dirk_2017766.jpg)
