Detective stories Quote by Carolyn Wells Download Open image “Where there's a will there's a detective story.” — Carolyn Wells ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Detective stories Detectives Stories
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals. — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters. — Shane Black Copy Share Image
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. — Dashiell Hammett Copy Share Image
“I like a good detective story," he said. "But, you know, they begin in the wrong place! They begin with the murder. But the murder is the end. The story begins long before that—years before sometimes with all the causes and events that bring certain people to a certain place at a certain time on a certain day.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
There's something wonderful about that sort of Poirot, Agatha Christie-style investigation: cross-questioning all the witnesses and checking their stories, looking for means, motive, and… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance whose presence is least desired, but most rewarding when embraced."- Carolyn Wells, Start… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I hate to do what everybody else is doing. Why, only last week, on Fifth Avenue and some cross streets, I noticed that every… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife, This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
“Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.” — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
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
I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
“Do you mean to tell me, Superintendent, that this is one of those damned cases you get in detective stories where a man is… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of… — Stephen Hopkins Copy Share Image
When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
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