Artistic Quote by Raymond Chandler

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

— Anonymous

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant,…

— Cyril Connolly

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

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

A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters…

— S. S. Van Dine

Occasionally, I have written about stories related to crime, but I have never attempted a traditional detective story. So I want to write a…

— Ruskin Bond

“The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long.…

— Elizabeth Taylor

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

— Mark Waid

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— V. S. Pritchett

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

“Perfectionism is the enemy of the author. There is a difference between good writing habits and perfectionism. The author who displays good writing habits…

— Gudjon Bergmann