Crime Quote by Robert Bloch

“Like a good detective story myself. Lots of nonsense written, though. Criminal discovered in last Chapter. Everyone dumbfounded. Real crime - you'd know at…

— Agatha Christie

“To me, detective stories are a great solace, a sort of mental knitting, where it doesn't matter if you drop a stitch." [From a…

— Rupert Hart-Davis

“Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.”

— Elizabeth Savage

“This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims…

— Agatha Christie

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

“The ordinary detective discovers from a ledger or a diary that a crime has been committed. We discover from a book of sonnets that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Crime brings together honest men and concentrates them.”

— Émile Durkheim

“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

“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

“I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's…

— Arthur Conan Doyle