Critics Quote by Anonymous

The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.

— Hannu Rajaniemi

“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

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

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous

The best critics do not worry about what the author might think. That would be like a detective worrying about what a suspect might…

— Craig Brown

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

— Alison Bechdel

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

— Walter Mosley

“The heroes of urban fantasy come out of the hard-boiled mystery, while the villains, monsters, and antagonists have their own roots in classic horror…

— George R.R. Martin

I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the…

— Shane Black

“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

— Natsume Soseki

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

— Anonymous

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo