Books Quote by Nina Tassler

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

— Philip Roth

I think in general there's no point in going into a field like English literature if you're not going to have fun with it.

— Louis Menand

I jump at every opportunity I get to do something new but only if I feel that I can justify it.

— Jubin Nautiyal

I jump at the opportunity to have fun and just be a bit silly.

— A. J. Odudu

If I did get the opportunity to write something cool that people would like, I would jump at the opportunity to make it.

— Gage Munroe

Successful people jump at opportunity and take advantage of it.

— Sir Mix-a-Lot

I would like to be part of all kind of cinema and will jump at any opportunity that allows me to experiment as an…

— Padmapriya Janakiraman

So many of the great detectives that we see on television now owe their origins to Sherlock Holmes. What was very exciting about Rob's…

— Nina Tassler

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that…

— Chester Himes

This element of surprise or mystery - the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called - is of great importance in a…

— E. M. Forster

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

— Ben Aaronovitch

This is really good,” Donovan Caine said, attacking his third strawberry pancake. “You sound surprised,” I said. He shrugged. “I just didn’t think an…

— Jennifer Estep

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

— Anonymous

Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting…

— C.E. Murphy

Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7

— John Sandford