Detective Quotes
185 quotes by 142 authors
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I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that…
— Paul Auster
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I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police…
— William Peter Blatty
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Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
— John Buchan
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I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
— Robert Carlyle
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A really good detective never gets married.
— Raymond Chandler
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It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
— Agatha Christie
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book…
— Alistair Cooke
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One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
— Hugo Gernsback
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The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense…
— Raymond Chandler
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This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a plot.…
— E. M. Forster
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I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective as my protagonist.…
— Ian Rankin
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The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a…
— Carl Jung
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I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
— Jon Voight
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I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there…
— Mary Lavin
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Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive…
— Akira Kurosawa
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One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You…
— David Oyelowo
Who Wrote These Detective Quotes
142 authors contributed a total of 185 Detective Quotes, led by these top contributors: