Books Quote by Amos Oz

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close…

— Francis M. Nevins

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Few secrets can escape an investigator who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest and skill to follow it up.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“the writer: "a spy sent into life by the forces of death. His main objective is to get the information across the border, back…

— Paul Bowles

“We Who Solve Mystery, Become Mystery”

— Rak Razam

“Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.”

— Toba Beta

“I write mysteries to say something, not just for entertainment”

— Dennis Lynds

I thought at first that I might write mysteries, but then I said, 'Mysteries have plots, and I'm not sure I can do that…

— Diana Gabaldon