About Quote by Ruskin Bond

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

— Anonymous

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

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and…

— Mary Lavin

In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself…

— Peter Temple

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

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

'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of…

— Nic Pizzolatto

All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see…

— Carl Hiaasen

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

— Michael Connelly

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 would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.

— Agatha Christie

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to…

— Anonymous