Cornell-woolrich Quote by Francis M. Nevins

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

“He clung to the story as to a vow whose abandonment might bring down on his head all kinds of grief and misfortune. He…

— Anonymous

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“The inexperienced reader wants the essentially familiar combined with superficial novelty. Each story must have a slightly new setting or twist or "gimmick," though…

— Laurence Perrine

“Inevitably, I became distracted by tales that I knew held no promise for us—accounts of murders that had long since been solved, or whose…

— Caleb Carr

“Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to…

— Kate Summerscale

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“As you begin to look deeply into the mystery of your own evolution, in place of good and evil you will find only stories,…

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters…

— S. S. Van Dine

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories…

— Nic Pizzolatto

“Now he only had an abstract interest in what was surrounding him, as though none of this was happening to him, but he was…

— Dmitry Glukhovsky