Always Quote by Umberto Eco

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

— Anonymous

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

— Shane Black

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

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting?…

— Christopher Bollen

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

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

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

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories…

— John Irving

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime…

— Elizabeth George

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

— Joel Edgerton

“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

Literary critics make natural detectives.

— Anonymous