Detective stories Quote by Rupert Hart-Davis

“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

“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

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

— V. S. Pritchett

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 century's greatest detective, advertised as solving every case imaginable. How great his burden must be, how much pain must he go through every…

— NisiOisiN

“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

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

— John Buchan

“if you find yourself playing detective with someone, you should remove them from your life immediately”

— Jackson MacKenzie

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

— Natsuo Kirino

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

“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