Detective Quotes

185 Detective quotes by 140 unique authors

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald
I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey… — Francis Ford Coppola
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown… — Manny Farber
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 any… — Chester Himes
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective… — Maureen Johnson
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective… — Elizabeth Kostova
I have worked very hard on ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy — Sushant Singh Rajput
Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two… — Alexander McCall Smith
Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out… — Carl Hiaasen
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett
There's a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It's like solving a puzzle. Or creating… — Christopher Bollen
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 the… — Christopher Bollen
I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From… — Christopher Bollen
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world's books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn't read its books, it borrows… — Stephen Leacock
So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on… — Clint Walker
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together. — Stephen Leacock
Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now.… — Billy Bob Thornton
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck. — Jeff Foxworthy
I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was… — Ryan Gosling
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high… — Umberto Eco
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing. — Kevin Eubanks
I think like a detective. — Laurell K. Hamilton
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. — Kazuo Ishiguro

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140 authors contributed a total of 185 Detective Quotes, led by these top contributors: