Detective Quotes

185 quotes by 142 authors

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
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
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
Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. — Robert Carlyle
A really good detective never gets married. — Raymond Chandler
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I play a detective, very close to myself actually. — Jon Voight
I donâ€™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
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
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

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