Detectives Quote by Ben H. Winters Download Open image “There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.” — Ben H. Winters ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detectives Littles Novelty Solve
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 Copy Share Image
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out. — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
“The expert detective’s pursuit will go unnoticed, but not because he is unremarkable. Rather, like the suspect’s shadow, he will appear as though he… — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime. — Elsa Barker Copy Share Image
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than… — Samuel Hopkins Adams Copy Share Image
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious. — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
The easiest way to solve a mystery is to decide that there is no mystery to solve. — John Green Copy Share Image
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“...for me, being a detective isn’t just about solving a case. It’s about bringing a resolution to all the loose ends, and to do… — Zechariah Barrett Copy Share Image
The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
It is part of what makes America great. That tradition of the free press, and also the tradition of this highly competitive market for… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Fiction has this special power. It has a power to clarify, to galvanize, to prophesy, and warn. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“every choice forecloses on other choices; each step forward leaves a thousand dead possible universes behind you.” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
It is really something, the extent to which we allow ourselves to live without thinking of things that we know, in the abstract, are… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
That one lesson that African American communities have learned over the centuries in America is that you can't just take for granted that things… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
A pool of melancholy blooms in my chest and rushes into my body like deep-blue blood. — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“The perseverance in this world, despite it all, of things done right. Carefully” — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
In terms of optimism, I am optimistic. I do think that, in the long term, that America will right itself. I have to think… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
“would strap you, hands and feet, to a machine, turn a wheel to make you talk. Or even not to, just to watch you… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Here in America we have a man [Donald Trump] who is a master of a medium that is all about self-aggrandizement and/or cruelty to… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford Copy Share Image
Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic… — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable… — Nancy McKeon Copy Share Image
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