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Detectives Quotes by Christopher Bollen
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story,… — William Peter Blatty
- Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan
- One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a… — Arthur C. Clarke
- As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the… — Edgar Allan Poe
- The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic… — Raymond Chandler