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Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the Secret Annexe. The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.  (Detective Story Quotes) 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  (Detective Story Quotes) The Compleat Angler is acknowledged to be one of the world’s books. Only the trouble is that the world doesn’t read its books, it borrows a detective story instead  (Detective Story Quotes) The old detective story that’s got a really complicated motive doesn’t apply to mine  (Detective Story Quotes) I read science, because to me, that’s extremely exciting. It’s like a great detective story, and it’s happening right in front of us.  (Detective Story Quotes) 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.  (Detective Story Quotes) 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.  (Detective Story Quotes) Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.  (Detective Story Quotes) As I work, I see my writing - each scene, each chapter, each section, each book - in three-act structures and classic myths, and I analyze them through the handy filter of the detective story.  (Detective Story Quotes) 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.  (Detective Story Quotes) I love facts and figures. It’s like following a detective story, piecing together what’s going on in the economy.  (Detective Story Quotes) I believe there’s a landscape that exists underneath everything that we can see in present-day stuff. And I think that makes life kind of a detective story.  (Detective Story Quotes) There’s a structure to a detective story that I can easily understand. I understand playing that particular game. It’s like solving a puzzle. Or creating a puzzle.  (Detective Story Quotes) Where there’s a will there’s a detective story  (Detective Story Quotes) What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order  (Detective Story Quotes) In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine  (Detective Story Quotes) All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive  (Detective Story Quotes) It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story  (Detective Story Quotes) 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  (Detective Story Quotes) 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  (Detective Story Quotes) A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive  (Detective Story Quotes) But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own  (Detective Story Quotes) 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  (Detective Story Quotes) The cinema, like the detective story, enables us to experience without danger to ourselves all the excitements, passions, and fantasies which have to be repressed in a humanistic age  (Detective Story Quotes) I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright  (Detective Story Quotes) 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  (Detective Story Quotes) The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life  (Detective Story Quotes) The perfect detective story cannot be written. The type of mind which can evolve the perfect problem is not the type of mind that can produce the artistic job of writing  (Detective Story Quotes) When I feel that I’m going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough  (Detective Story Quotes) You find when you’re writing a detective story that you’re actually not trying to solve anything. You’re trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle  (Detective Story Quotes)
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