Detectives Quotes

199 quotes by 150 authors

No. I just don't want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it's too late. I want to prevent… — Jennifer Echols
I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. — Joseph Wambaugh
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the… — Daniel H. Wilson
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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
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
We would never call inexplicable little insights hunches, for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in… — China Mieville
Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of… — Raymond Chandler
This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot. — E. M. Forster
And if weâ€™re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of… — Nic Pizzolatto
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I… — Sarah Vowell
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
What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order. — P.D. James
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a… — Cornell Woolrich
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
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off. — 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
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in… — John Banville
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to… — Victor Davis Hanson
THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective… — Kieron Gillen

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