Books Quote by Orhan Pamuk

“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

“His most characteristic detective stories end with the realization that no rational account of events is possible, and his suspense stories tend to close…

— Francis M. Nevins

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“as only an insider can, and he brings that expertise to his prose, creating one of the most truthful, accurate, and tension-filled suspense novels…

— Garret Holms

“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

— Natsume Soseki

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs

— Mary Higgins Clark

“Novels should reflect reality to some extent, otherwise they risk being sentimental.”

— Marc Levy

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

“Better and happier those who, recognizing that everything is fictitious, write the novel before someone writes it for them and, like Machiavelli, don courtly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.”

— Sneha Mehta

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton