Book Quote by Christopher Bollen

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

Why are murder mysteries so popular? There's a 3-part "formula" (if you want to call it that) for a genre novel: (1) Someone the…

— Lois Duncan

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day…

— James Patterson

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,…

— Mark Bonnar

'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in…

— Carl Jung

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their…

— Umberto Eco

If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.

— Colson Whitehead

I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.

— Lori Loughlin

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous