Detective Stories Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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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
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I don’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
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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
— Rex Stout
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Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
— Jeffery Deaver
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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
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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
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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
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Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
— Steig Larsson
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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
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Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.
— V. S. Pritchett
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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
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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
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You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.
— Agatha Christie
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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
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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: