Detective Novel Quotes
6 quotes by 6 authors
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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
— Ross Macdonald
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A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have…
— S. S. Van Dine
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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all…
— Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective…
— Patti Smith
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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know,…
— Alan Moore
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But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.
— Peter Shaffer
Who Wrote These Detective Novel Quotes
6 authors contributed a total of 6 Detective Novel Quotes as follows: