Anybody Quote by Nic Pizzolatto

'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

The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the…

— V. S. Pritchett

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

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

“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

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

— V. S. Pritchett

“here’s where I introduce “The Detective Rule.” The idea is simple: if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from…

— Jackson MacKenzie

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

— Agatha Christie

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

“if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from your life immediately”

— Jackson MacKenzie

There are so many detective shows on television, aren't there? There's a real glut of grisly and violent ones, that aren't my cup of…

— Helen Baxendale

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