About Quote by John Thaw

To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person

— Robert Kiyosaki

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but…

— Anonymous

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

— Shane Black

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino

I think like a detective.

— Laurell K. Hamilton

There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.

— Ben H. Winters

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

— Mark Waid

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

— Agatha Christie

What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature…

— Paul Harvey

“Firstly,” Jackaby said with a sigh, “a ‘proper detective’ is about the last thing a good detective wants to look like, most of the…

— William Ritter

“I simply said he was a detective, and let it go at that, I should be obtaining the reader's interest under false pretences. He…

— P.G. Wodehouse