Detective Quotes

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

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.

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

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

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

A really good detective never gets married.

There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.

There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.

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.

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.