Ball game Quote by Rex Stout

I think the detective story is by far the best upholder of the democratic doctrine in literature. I mean, there couldn't have been detective…

— Rex Stout

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books…

— Rex Stout

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's…

— Rex Stout

“On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one's happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar…

— Tom Swift

I believe there's a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of…

— Stephen Hopkins

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

— Anonymous

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The…

— Raymond Chandler

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

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution.…

— Robert Cormier

Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough…

— Anne Frank

make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

— Carolyn Wells