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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• 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

  Writing, Trying, Narrative

  "Reliving the fall of Sparta". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. December 22, 2011.

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• THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is unlike True Detective as: it features women who do things. THE WICKED + THE DIVINE is like True Detective as: we shamelessly rip off huge chunks of stuff from Alan Moore.

  Kieron Gillen

  Rip, Wicked, Stuff

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• I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

  Celestine Sibley

  Moving, Kind, Drummer

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• Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Fun, Views, Justice

  Dorothy L. Sayers, Jill Paton Walsh (1999). “Thrones, Dominations”, p.126, Macmillan

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• The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. (Speak To Me Of Death)

  Cornell Woolrich

  Girl, Uncles, Fear

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• Any chance of getting something sweet to go with my coffee?” [Finn] asked in a hopeful voice. I arched an eyebrow at him. “You mean all those pieces of strawberry pie that you ate for lunch weren't enough?” “I’m a growing boy,” Finn said in a sincere tone. “I need my vitamins.” Bria snorted. “The only thing that’s growing on you, Lane, is your ego.” Finn sidled up to my sister and gave her a dazzling smile. “Well, other things of mine also tend to swell up in your presence, detective.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Coffee, Mean

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.

  Sarah Vowell

  Caring, Nerd, Ulysses's Grant

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Race, Talking, Next

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Plot, Elements, Mystery

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.132, RosettaBooks

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• If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or the timber of a feminine voice, so much the better for us. Literature never produced a relationship more symbiotic nor a warmer and more timeless friendship.

  Loren D. Estleman

  Voice, Suffering, Literature

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• Being a homicide detective ca be the loneliest job in the world. The friends of the victim are upset and in despair, but sooner or later - after weeks or months - they go back to their everyday lives. For the closest family it takes longer, but for the most part, to some degree, they too get over the grieving and despair. Life has to go on; it does go on. But the unsolved murders keep gnawing away and in the end there's only one person left who thinks night and day about the victim: it's the office who is left with the investigation.

  Steig Larsson

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Morning, Book, Dope

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• If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

  Albert Brooks

  Hunting, Serial Killer, Looks

  "Interview: Albert Brooks Sees Into the Future" by Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Drama, Trying, Watches

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• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

  Terence McKenna

  Reflection, Self, Track

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• I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Thinking, Historical, Important

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

  Olivia Williams

  Play, Acting, Done

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• Y'see, I get so bored so easily. I like to start with a clean slate each time. Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Jobs, Book, Character

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• In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of "True Detective" that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Summer, Thinking, Two

  "'True Detective' creator on his gripping new HBO series". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 7, 2014.

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• Detective stories are the art-for-art's sake of yawning Philistinism.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Art, Yawning, Stories

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• Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

  Sushant Singh Rajput

  Hard

  "'I Have Worked Very Hard on ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy' – Sushant Singh Rajput". bollyspice.com. February 14, 2015 |.

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• You find when you're writing a detective story that you're actually not trying to solve anything. You're trying to stop the reader from solving the puzzle.

  Christopher Bollen

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Hero, Different, World

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• I made True Detective like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Kitchen, Television, Made

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