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.
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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.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
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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.
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Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.
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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.
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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.
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I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
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Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
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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.
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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.
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There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
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I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.
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I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
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It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check.
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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.
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
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I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.
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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.
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