Darling Quote 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,…

— Dashiell Hammett

Put your ear to the sky and listen my darling, everything whispers I love you.

— Buddy Wakefield

Listen to me darling, Who do you think you are? Stop giving me excuses. You betrayed me, your love was fake Why did you…

— Asking Alexander

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which…

— Vita Sackville-West

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of…

— Stephen Hopkins

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

— Anonymous

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The…

— Raymond Chandler

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

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.…

— Robert Cormier

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough…

— Anne Frank

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

— Alan Greenspan

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

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