Detectives Quote by Anonymous

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

— Robert Kiyosaki

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to…

— Bertrand Russell

“In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It’s bullshit! Human nature is a…

— Jo Nesbø

Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions.But detectives have souls the same as anyone else.... You know, Mrs. Beragon, being a detective is…

— Ranald MacDougall

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

— Agatha Christie