About Quote by Shane Black

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

Crime makes for great drama and it's interesting because it delves into the darker side of us. Those kind of stories go way back,…

— Mark Bonnar

I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're…

— Laura van den Berg

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

— Natsuo Kirino

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority.

— Joel Edgerton

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 always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to…

— Clint Eastwood

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've…

— Mark Waid

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

— Bill James

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but…

— 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

A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.

— Lorne Greene