Detective Quote by Clare Havens

“When I saw the Twilight movies I thought being a Vampyre was so romantic. When my friends decided to be Vampyres it was so…

— Abramelin Keldor

“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.”

— William Kely McClung

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

— Chelsea Cain

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

— Agatha Christie

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the…

— Rafael Yglesias

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think…

— Carl Hiaasen

“Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish.”

— Rex Stout

I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in…

— Mark Valley

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the…

— Liz Williams

“Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.”

— Jane Sunday

In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I…

— Nic Pizzolatto

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and…

— James Marsh