Detective Novel Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure. — Ross Macdonald
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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:

• 1 Detective Novel Quote by Ross Macdonald
• 1 Detective Novel Quote by S. S. Van Dine
• 1 Detective Novel Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• 1 Detective Novel Quote by Patti Smith
• 1 Detective Novel Quote by Alan Moore
• 1 Detective Novel Quote by Peter Shaffer