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At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

— Martha Nussbaum

When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper.…

— Carolyn Wells

Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.

— Mark Waid

“And there are still a number of people around who say that Hammett didn't write detective stories at all-merely hard-boiled chronicles of mean streets…

— Raymond Chandler

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their…

— Umberto Eco

I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close…

— Sergei Lukyanenko

The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.

— Rex Stout

While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I…

— Paul Auster

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day…

— James Patterson

“[…] detective novels are not novels of detection, still less of revelation, still less of solution. Those are all necessary, but not only are…

— China Miéville

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

And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it…

— James Denton