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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

Time, Art, Justice, Pain, Fight, Me

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

Home, Think, Redneck, You, Always, Cop

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

Mother, Father, Great, Growing Up, Loved

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

Life, Best, Great, Coffee, Sky, Book

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

Man, Heart, Born, Bottom, Every Man, He

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer. Hugo Gernsback

Clouds, Old, Modern, Writer, Description

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

Good, Girl, Reading, Story, Battle, Bad

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

Science, Science Fiction, Politicians

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on. Jean Fritz

Work, Character, Reading, Research, Try

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

Good, Book, Weather, Small, Details

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

You, Solution, Need, Crime

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters. Shane Black

Great, Interesting, Always, Stories

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. Ryan Gosling

Age, Growing Up, Me, Gangster, Loved

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

City, New York, Story, New, Ridiculous

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

Work, Yourself, People, Law, Luxury, You

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

Story, Order, Restoration, About

I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something. D. A. Pennebaker

Think, Performance, Process, Camera, You

As a kid, I always wanted to be lots of things. I was a Walter Mitty type. I wanted to be in the French Foreign Legion, a detective, a doctor, a test pilot with a scarf, a fisherman who hauled in a tremendous marlin after a 12-hour fight. Jonathan Winters

Fight, Doctor, Test, Kid, Always, Pilot

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

Science, Tradition, Back, Going, Stories

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again. Thomas Gibson

Nature, People, Think, World, Group

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

Desire, Young, Never, Straightforward

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. Victor Davis Hanson

History, Rules, Present, Know, Evidence

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

Thought, Doing, Know, Lighting, Film

What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective. David McCandless

Love, Love Is, Data, Finding, Hidden

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, London, Watch, Secret, Like, Frost

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece. Adria Arjona

Time, You, True, Like, Describe, How

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