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Detective Quotes

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure Picture Quote #1

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again Picture Quote #1

$What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception Picture Quote #1$

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues Picture Quote #1

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don’t describe anything in the society outside Picture Quote #1

What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can’t attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn’t so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it Picture Quote #1

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Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life Picture Quote #1

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question Picture Quote #1

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do Picture Quote #1

No. I just don’t want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it’s too late. I want to prevent it from happening Picture Quote #1

In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren’t absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources Picture Quote #1

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what’s going on, but I don’t like them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective Picture Quote #1

There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you’re going to make a living? cook books and detective stories Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

When I’m working on a serious and solid book... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again Picture Quote #1

If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck Picture Quote #1

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Being a detective isn’t all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine Picture Quote #1

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature Picture Quote #1

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The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure (Detective Quotes) I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again (Detective Quotes) What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception (Detective Quotes) The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues (Detective Quotes) I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don’t describe anything in the society outside (Detective Quotes) What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can’t attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn’t so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it (Detective Quotes) Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each joy was clouded by the knowledge it would end. And so nature had implanted in us a desire for something unattainable? No. It couldn’t be. It makes no sense. Every other striving implanted by nature had a corresponding object that wasn’t a phantom. Why this exception? the detective reasoned. It was nature making hunger when there wasn’t any food. We continue. We go on. Thus death proved life (Detective Quotes) Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question (Detective Quotes) I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do (Detective Quotes) No. I just don’t want to be a detective. They figure out what happened after the fact, when it’s too late. I want to prevent it from happening (Detective Quotes) In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren’t absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources (Detective Quotes) One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero (Detective Quotes) 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 (Detective Quotes) I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what’s going on, but I don’t like them (Detective 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 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 Quotes) You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as the effect of opium or wine. If you make a picture or a statue, it sets the beholder in that state of mind you had when you made it. If you spend for show, on building, or gardening, or on pictures, or on equipages, it will so appear. We are all physiognomists and penetrators of character, and things themselves are detective (Detective Quotes) There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you’re going to make a living? cook books and detective stories (Detective 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 Quotes) When I’m working on a serious and solid book... I read about a detective novel a day. It’s the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again (Detective Quotes) If your neighbors think you’re a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck (Detective Quotes) The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective (Detective 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 Quotes) Being a detective isn’t all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives (Detective 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 Quotes) I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories (Detective 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 Quotes) 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 (Detective 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 Quotes) Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature (Detective Quotes)

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