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Detectives Quotes by Dashiell Hammett
- 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…
- When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was…
- Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.
More Detectives Quotes
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives… — Peter Ackroyd
- I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me… — Jacqueline Bisset
- 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
- I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. — Robert Carlyle
- A really good detective never gets married. — Raymond Chandler
- It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie
- Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
- All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit… — Alistair Cooke
- 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