Detective Story Quotes

22 Detective Story quotes by 18 unique authors

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police… — William Peter Blatty
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a… — Carl Jung
If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered… — Rex Stout
What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible… — Dashiell Hammett
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest… — Weston La Barre
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds. — Philip Guedalla
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the… — Cyril Connolly
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P.D. James
The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can… — Raymond Chandler
The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average… — Raymond Chandler
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
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
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
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks. — Dorothy L. Sayers
A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance. — Simone de Beauvoir
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love… — Lee Grant
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. — Peter Shaffer
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright. — Peter Shaffer

Who Wrote These Detective Story Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 22 Detective Story Quotes as follows: