Detective Quote by Alain Resnais

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

— Raymond Chandler

I'm watching The Singing Detective.' I'm rather taken by it.

— Jonathan Bailey

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.

— Ralph Davis

As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief,…

— Octavia Spencer

A detective who uses his deductive powers to corner a suspect and then does nothing to stop them from committing suicide is no better…

— Gosho Aoyama

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime…

— Elizabeth George

These detective series on TV always end at precisely the right moment-after the criminal is arrested and before the court turns him loose.

— Robert Orben

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

You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving…

— Christopher Bollen

I like the idea of playing a historical detective.

— Eva Mendes

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the…

— Rex Stout

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

— Daniel H. Wilson

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

— P. D. James

Detective, I don't know where the boyfriend is, really," I said. And it was true, considering tide, current, and the habits of marine scavengers.…

— Jeff Lindsay

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

— Ben Aaronovitch