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'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

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

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a…

— Ruskin Bond

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

“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

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

— Shane Black

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

“In traditional crime fiction every detective with any self-respect has an unfailing nose for when people are lying. It’s bullshit! Human nature is a…

— Jo Nesbø

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they…

— Cary Fukunaga

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

— V. S. Pritchett

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

— Natsuo Kirino