Quotes of: Detective-stories Keyword

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

P. D. James

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

Natsuo Kirino

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

The Omnibus of Crime

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form.

Chester Himes

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

Agatha Christie

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

Having just enough life to enjoy being dead.

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

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

Peter Shaffer

Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a t...

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Sure, I knew the differences between a space opera and a hard-boiled detective story and a historical novel...but I never about such differences. It seemed to me, then as now, that there are good stories and bad stories, and that was the only distinc...

Warriors 1

Cop At Scene: Hey, Detective. Nice entrance. Graham: Fuck you. [to Detective Carr] Graham: Hey. Detective Carr: You okay? Graham: I'm freezing. Detective Carr: Shit. I heard it might snow. Graham: Get outta here. Detective Carr: That's what I heard. ...

Crash

Suppose you turn your attention inward in search of this 'I'. You may encounter nothing more than an ever changing stream of consciousness, a flow of thoughts and feelings in which there is no real self to be discovered.

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

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.

Albert Brooks

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.

Thomas R. Insel

[observing the car wreck] Detective Neal Domgaard: [holds up an evidence bag containing a pearl earing] The boys found this on the floor in the back of the caddy. Detective Harry McKnight: Yeah, I know. They showed me. Detective Neal Domgaard: Could ...

Mulholland Dr.

If there was one overarching theme to 'True Detective,' I would say it was that, as human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by - so you'd better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

Nic Pizzolatto

He can see what move I'm planning to make in chess and counters before I can do it. He always knows who the killer is in a detective story. I think he could make a career out of detecting, but he wants to write plays for theater. Maybe he could be a ...

The Lost Girl

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

Marie Windsor

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

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Rex Stout

Police Detective: [to Henry] Hey, your pals are here. You don't want to talk to me, you're gonna have a fucking problem all night 'cause I'll be on you like shit. New York State. Twenty five fucking years, pal. [the detectives bring in the utensils H...

Goodfellas