Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective Votes: 3
Dean CavanaghI found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant. Votes: 3
Michelle MonaghanIf I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' Votes: 3
Nic PizzolattoI saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here. Votes: 3
Alain ResnaisPoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. Votes: 2
Arthur C. ClarkeIf you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. Votes: 2
David Herbert DonaldI didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! Votes: 2
Marie WindsorIndividuals vary, but percentages remain constant. So says the statistician. Votes: 1
Arthur Conan Doylemasa kanak-kanak adalah koin berharga pertama yang dicuri oleh kemiskinan dari seorang anak Votes: 1
Anthony HorowitzConan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses. Votes: 1
Rob ThomasThe world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Votes: 1
Arthur Conan DoyleIt was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. Votes: 1
Anthony HorowitzCovert operations relied on the unguarded slip, the unconscious choosing of one word over another. Votes: 1
Sara SheridanOnly once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. Votes: 1
Dean KoontzThere are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder. Votes: 1
Margery AllinghamGrace shivered even though it was hot out, because that's what detectives do in detective books. Votes: 1
Ella MinsterI should mortify a dozen Sir Johns if it might aid my investigation." - Elizabeth Bennet Votes: 1
Debbie CowensShe looked at his face and saw a monk and a detective, both beautiful and bizarre. Votes: 1
Lawren LeoWell, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. Votes: 1
Keri ArthurIf we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell Votes: 1
Freeman Wills CroftBeing a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. Votes: 1
Philip KerrDon't wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you're gonna have to run. Votes: 1
Dianne HarmanI left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case. Votes: 1
Marjorie Weinman SharmatChuckling to herself, Nancy said aloud, "Romance and detective work won't mix tonight! Votes: 0
Carolyn KeeneThe old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. Votes: 0
Ruth RendellI enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again. Votes: 0
Joseph WambaughI love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. Votes: 0
Robert WinstonI was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books. Votes: 0
Dave BarryThere simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. Votes: 0
S. S. Van DineI came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. Votes: 0
Shirley JacksonTo be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person Votes: 0
Robert KiyosakiI would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories. Votes: 0
Agatha ChristieIt was clear that in a past life the detective had been a phone booth beside an empty highway. Votes: 0
Amelia GrayI am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. Votes: 0
James EllroyLet me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said. Votes: 0
Darynda JonesLa mejor receta para la novela policiaca: el detective no debe saber nunca más que el lector
Agatha ChristieLa mejor receta para la novela policiaca: el detective no debe saber nunca más que el lector.
Agatha ChristieI've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. Votes: 3 Kazuo Ishiguro
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! Votes: 1 Marie Windsor
But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own. Votes: 3 Peter Shaffer
I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past. Votes: 3 Patrick Modiano
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories. Votes: 2 Jeffery Deaver
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then. Votes: 4 Lee Grant