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

The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another. Tom Reiss

Your, Some, Another

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

About, Detective Story

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

Bottom, His, Believes

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

Think, Redneck, Always

A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl. Otto Penzler

Reading, Bad, Bad Girl

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports. Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Small, Bride, Reports

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

Ridiculous, New, Itself

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham

More, Remains, Fictional

For everything bad, there's a million really exciting things, whether it's someone puts out a really great book, there's a new movie, there's a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life. Patti Smith

Book, Bad, Movie

In detective land, you have to deal with a lot of intense emotions, so you yourself have to remain mostly unemotional and detached. These are people, like law enforcement and surgeons, in professions that don't have the luxury of being able to be emotional or to break down. In my line of work, it's almost a requirement. Juliette Lewis

Deal, Almost, Mostly

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected. Miranda Otto

Unexpected, Conclusion, Get

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting. Rachel McAdams

Strong, Woman, Play

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution. Kerry Greenwood

Solution, Crime, Need

A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem. David Lagercrantz

Alcohol, Problem

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

Certainly, Stories, Featured

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found. Erik Larson

Like, Being, Nobody Else

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel. Patti Smith

Straightforward, Which

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

Father, Becoming, Ballerina

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine. Ruth Rendell

Motive, Mine, Apply

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle. Mark Waid

Bicycle, Sights, Gotten

A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out. Mark Fuhrman

Study, Figure, Devote

The reality of any location in Britain being used in a TV program of a film is that something bad is going to happen! That's the nature of drama. Most of the things that get made or basically grisly detective shows about murders, accidents or medical dramas. Ben Wheatley

Medical, Britain, TV

It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular. Otto Penzler

Ultimate, Which, Became

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.' Patti Smith

Love, Reasons, TV

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade. Roger Stone

Like, Allowed, Trench

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. Alan Alda

Right, Like, Read

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