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