Books Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“The work of the philosophical policeman," replied the man in blue, "is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“I will only write the novel, if I can solve the crime”

— Andrew Hixson

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a writer since…

— Ricardo Fleshman

“That was still my meat—the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why…

— Robert Bloch

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been…

— Alexandre Dumas

“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

“The distortion of a text resembles a murder: the difficulty is not in perpetrating the deed, but in getting rid of its traces.”

— Anonymous