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• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
• I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective… — Jacqueline Bisset
• I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural… — William Peter Blatty
• Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan
• I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. — Robert Carlyle
• A really good detective never gets married. — Raymond Chandler
• It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story. — Agatha Christie
• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. — Arthur C. Clarke
• All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human… — Alistair Cooke
• One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to… — Arthur C. Clarke
• What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the… — Hugo Gernsback

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