Detective Quotes

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy

Home, Might, Redneck

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

Story, Ridiculous, City

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

Science, Read, Stories

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

Perhaps, Protective, Sexually

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

Rather, Read, Story

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.
James Wolcott

Music, Lost, Rather

A really good detective never gets married.
Raymond Chandler

Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
Carl Hiaasen

Good, Job, Same

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
Robert Carlyle

Love, Character, Series

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

American, Days, Stories

I think like a detective.
Laurell K. Hamilton

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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Down, Matter, Write

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.
Dorothy L. Sayers

End, Story, Public

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

Heart, Born, Believes

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
Errol Morris

Work, Used, Private

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

Love, Game, Writer

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,' 'The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,' 'Born Equal' and now 'Small Island' - was another highlight for me. And filming in Jamaica was great, too.
David Oyelowo

Great, Done, Small

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.
David Oyelowo

Best, Friend, Black

I've actually published two compilations, if only barely. Hire a private detective and possibly you'll be able to locate them. One was called 'Violent Screen,' and the other 'Now Playing at the Valencia.' Bantam and Simon and Schuster.
Stephen Hunter

Two, Able, Playing

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

Dad, Made, Whatever

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

Science, Stories, Tradition

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert Parker, and it was impossible to read the genre and not be influenced by him.
Robert Crais

Today, Writing, Him

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

Writing, Career, Play

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

Story, Novel, Published

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

Story, Studying, Valuable

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

Touch, Stories, Eventually

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

Play, Actually, Close

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

Thought, Film, Stories

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.
Judy Blume

Great, Mother, Father

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

Enjoy, Again, Research

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