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

A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler

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

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

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

Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
Kevin Eubanks

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.
Sergio Aragones

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.
John Buchan

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

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.
Lee Grant

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

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

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.
William Peter Blatty

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
Jon Voight

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.
Peter Shaffer

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.
Alain Resnais

I think like a detective.
Laurell K. Hamilton

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
John Thaw

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.
John Sladek

I went to the premiere of The Detective with Sinatra, and perhaps people jumped to conclusions. He was very protective towards me and never came on to me sexually.
Jacqueline Bisset