Books Quote by Patrick Modiano

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

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've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

— Paul G. Tremblay

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

I always wanted to write novels, even before I had read a lot of novels or had a very good idea of what they…

— Elif Batuman

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross…

— Linwood Barclay

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

“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

“My first three books, the collections, were fun to write and a great start but I have matured so much as a writer since…

— Ricardo Fleshman

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

— Martha Nussbaum