Detective Stories Quotes

Detective Stories Quote of the day

Listen, darling, tomorrow I'll buy you a whole lot of detective stories, but don't worry your pretty little head over mysteries tonight.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

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

Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living — cook books and detective stories.

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

You have a tendency, Hastings, to prefer the least likely. That, no doubt, is from reading too many detective stories.

You have the Answer. Just get quiet enough to hear it. ~Pat Obuchowski

To catch the bad guys, you've got to think like a bad guy - and that's why all the best detectives have a dark side...