Detective Quotes

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.