Detectives Quote by Agatha Christie

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

— Lee Child

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

I've been writing since 1973. I've written nonfiction things of that nature, but I'm probably best known for crime fiction and, to some extent,…

— Joe R. Lansdale

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a high suspense writer.

— Iris Johansen

I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made…

— Avi

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

— Lisa Jewell

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to…

— Sarah Pinborough

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of…

— Barry Eisler

I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.

— Colson Whitehead