“I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination." D'Molay the… — M.Scott Verne Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum… — Mandy Broughton Copy Share Image
“Even an Astral Adventure needs a little sensuality. "Perhaps you can show me how tastefully decorated your bedroom is." Lee probably felt… — Scot Fin Copy Share Image
“You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope Pius X And you whom the… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“But show business has always been like that - any kind of show business. If these people didn't live intense and rather… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you… — Elizabeth Jane Howard Copy Share Image
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“But Erin let it slide. The child was only four years old; she had a whole lifetime to learn about sadness. Today… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law."… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.” — B.V. Lawson Copy Share Image
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels,… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
