Detective Stories Quotes

18 quotes by 16 authors

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. — Rex Stout
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. — Jeffery Deaver
It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and… — Ludwig von Mises
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they… — Steig Larsson
Boredom has been used as a technique, it is a device. In Zen, boredom is used as a device: you are bored to death, and… — Rajneesh
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I… — Sergio Aragones
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. — Steig Larsson
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
Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism. — V. S. Pritchett
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
I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very… — Dorothy L. Sayers
You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories. — Agatha Christie
Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight. — Dashiell Hammett
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! — Marie Windsor

Who Wrote These Detective Stories Quotes

16 authors contributed a total of 18 Detective Stories Quotes as follows: