Creating Quote by Christopher Bollen

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…

— Christopher Bollen

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last,…

— Dashiell Hammett

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

In a mystery, the sleuth must be believably involved and emotionally invested in solving the crime.

— Diane Mott Davidson

The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.

— Elsa Barker

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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

— Shane Black

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,…

— Cyril Connolly

“here’s where I introduce “The Detective Rule.” The idea is simple: if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from…

— Jackson MacKenzie

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

— Andrew Shaffer

'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

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a…

— Ruskin Bond