Boards Quote by Rex Stout

I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this…

— Brian Pinkerton

“I'd like to give these detective story writers a course of routine work. They'd soon learn how most things are untraceable and nobody ever…

— Agatha Christie

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

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

— Demetri Martin

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Mark Twain

My whole thing is, I collect what I know I want to read, and I have certain bookshelves in my bedroom that contain all…

— June Squibb

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

— Raoul Vaneigem

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at…

— Emma Donoghue

Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops, I went at once to Hastings & Sons Bookshop upon receiving your…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

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

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

— Sherman Alexie

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