Detective Fiction Quotes

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  • It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.

    Book   Writing   School  
    "James Patterson interview with longtime editor Michael Pietsch". Interview with Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. March 15, 2013.
  • Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

    "A one-word response to Engdahl" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.
  • My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.

    Father   Book   Law  
    Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.
  • Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

    Reading   Fiction   Way  
    Source: www.omnivoracious.com
  • It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all.

  • Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

  • I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

    "Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.
  • Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

  • It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  • Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

    "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.
  • There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.

    S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic
  • I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

    John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan
  • I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

  • The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

    The Innocence of Father Brown "The Blue Cross" (1911)
  • It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.

  • The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

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

    "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.
  • I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

    Winter   Grieving   Long  
    The Big Sleep ch. 3 (1939)
  • A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations. Such matters have no vital place in a record of crime and deduction. They hold up the action and introduce issues irrelevant to the main purpose, which is to state a problem, analyze it, and bring it to a successful conclusion. To be sure, there must be a sufficient descriptiveness and character delineation to give the novel verisimilitude.

    S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.6, Booklassic
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