Detectives Quotes

199 quotes by 150 authors

If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the… — Loren D. Estleman
I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles… — John Thomas Sladek
The American Dream is one of the greatest ideas in the history of human achievement . . . It thrives today in an age when… — Dan Rather
There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion… — David Simon
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
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Steig Larsson
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 never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them. — Kevin Whately
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy… — Olivia Williams
When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like… — Judy Blume
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. — David Herbert Donald
The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and… — Michael Ealy
I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey… — Francis Ford Coppola
The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown… — Manny Farber
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people. — Paul Guilfoyle
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
What is interesting, as well, is how much power homicide detectives have and how much respect. They are kind of rock stars, especially in New… — Theo James
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective… — Maureen Johnson
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
I have worked very hard on â€˜Detective Byomkesh Bakshy — Sushant Singh Rajput

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