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• A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

  Ed McBain

  Week, Form, Various

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• A really good detective never gets married.

  Raymond Chandler

  Police, Married

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

  David Herbert Donald

  Thinking, Tasks, Historian

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• In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.

  Steig Larsson

  Book, Ordinary, Stories

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• You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.

  Raymond Chandler

  Tvs, Hats, Hats Off

  Raymond Chandler (2002). “Playback: A Novel”, p.107, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Play, Careers

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• The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent.

  Barry White

  Truth, Cat, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

  Jon Voight

  Play

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• To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

  Rex Stout

  Joy, Finesse, Daring

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• 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

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

  Steig Larsson

  Two, Stories, Irritated

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• Literary critics make natural detectives.

  A. S. Byatt

  Natural, Critics

  "Possession". Book by A. S. Byatt, 1990.

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• The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.

  Raymond Chandler

  Real, Men, Fiction

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.160, Grove Press

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• Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.

  Ayn Rand

  Civilization, Two, Tea

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.307, Penguin

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• I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

  Shirley Jackson

  Believe

  Shirley Jackson (2009). “Just an Ordinary Day: Stories”, p.14, Bantam

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• Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.

  Darynda Jones

  Care, Scales, Said

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.171, Macmillan

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• The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

  Michael Connelly

  Crime Novels, Detective Work, Cases

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• I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.

  Nathan Fillion

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. March 9, 2009.

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

  Rex Stout

  Games, Balls, Stories

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• 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

  Sunset, Clouds, Novelists

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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Political, Fiction

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Giving, Research, Fiction And Nonfiction

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  Nancy McKeon

  Opportunity, Goes On, Sheriffs

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• 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

  Humorous, Gdp, Stories

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