Bases Quote by Terry Pratchett

Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what…

— Daniel Horan

There is obviously a fascination with police procedure and stories about the police and there are other series that reflect that but what marks…

— Jason Watkins

But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that…

— Oren Moverman

The police genre is capable of holding and shaping many forms of storytelling.

— Lesley Sharp

There are so many police series that we all end up playing a cop of one hue or another eventually.

— Adrian Dunbar

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important…

— Sam Jaeger

I happened to write a book about the stuff I've been involved in over the years. It just so happened that my profession is…

— Ralph Sarchie

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. All these cliches that, as…

— Theo James

I think a lot of police procedurals are very conventional. With the stuff I'm doing, I'm trying to approach the institution of the police…

— Jed Mercurio

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is…

— James Ellroy

'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century…

— Jed Mercurio

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side,…

— Richard Price