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" A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. "
Evan Hunter
" Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive. "
Elif Batuman
" A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it. "
Kerry Greenwood
" As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game. "
Rex Stout
" A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama. "
John Wells
" Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night. "
David Grann
" 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
" Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female. "
Frances McDormand
" Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe. "
Giles Foden
" 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'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series. "
Robert Carlyle
" I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories. "
Ruth Rendell
" I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set. "
Cary Fukunaga
" If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.' "
Nic Pizzolatto
" If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective. "
David Herbert Donald
" 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 knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience. "
Nic Pizzolatto
" I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked. "
Robert Winston
" I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily. "
Becki Newton
" I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them. "
Kevin Whately
" I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories. "
Lennie James
" I play a detective, very close to myself actually. "
Jon Voight
" I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard! "
Dave Legeno
" I read a lot of detective novels. "
Caitlin Kittredge
" I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective. "
Chelsea Cain
" I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made. "
Maureen Johnson
" I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here. "
Alain Resnais
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