Action Quote by Raymond Chandler

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

Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“The bar was crowded with theorizing Sherlockians, who in the absence of any actual evidence had created grand machinations to explain the crime. Minor…

— Graham Moore

“That was still my meat—the true-detective yarn. I picked it up and started to read it over, wondering for the ten thousandth time why…

— Robert Bloch

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

— Miranda Otto

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

“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

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on…

— Michael Mann

There's a lot of two-hander dialogue in 'True Detective,' and I needed to place those guys in locations where there were other levels of…

— Cary Fukunaga

While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional - it…

— Sarah Weinman