“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.” WritingMeanMatterLiteratureFictionNovelStreetsConversationNo Matter WhatAutobiographyBiographiesDetectivesDetective Fiction Author:Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“I often use detective elements in my books. I love detective novels. But I also think science fiction and detective stories are very close and friendly genres, which shows in the books by Isaac Asimov, John Brunner, and Glen Cook. However, whilst even a tiny drop of science fiction may harm a detective story, a little detective element benefits science fiction. Such a strange puzzle.” ThinkingMayLittlesBookStoriesUseShowsFictionNovelStrangeElementsBenefitsScience FictionHarmTinyCooksGenreFriendlyPuzzlesDetectivesIsaacDetective Stories Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“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.” IfsLooksStoriesFictionListsThese DaysHuntingKillersDetectivesSequelsSerialsSellersSerial KillerBest SellersDetective Stories Author:Albert Brooks
“Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.” HandsEffortFictionMysteryFineEconomicsInvisibleGenreDetectivesPioneersIntegratingInvisible HandDetective Fiction Author:Tyler Cowen
“Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.” FictionDetectivesDetective FictionAllan Poe Author:Giles Foden
“Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence. The only place success comes before work is a dictionary Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.” WorldShouldMayHelpingStoriesUseWishFictionPoliticianPleaseLogicMethodScience FictionCleanConclusionDictionaryDetectivesSystematicDetective StoriesWrong Conclusion Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.” FictionDetectivesFondnessChristieDetective Fiction Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“Anything that has to do with noir and space, I'm gonna love. When you've got a noir-ish, pulpy detective in a science fiction show, I'm all in, in that regard.” ShowsSpaceFictionRegardScience FictionDetectivesNoir Author:Thomas Jane
“My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.” FirstsBookHardLawFatherFictionStudyTaughtAreasDecidedPoliceSeriesCriminalsCaliforniaProceduresDetectivesExpertiseFiction WritersCriminal LawDetective Fiction Author:Sue Grafton
“I think that is one of the things that is beautiful about fiction and that you can do through drama. If I was a detective, I could make a certain version of everything we know to be exactly true. And that would have a certain kind of truth value. And there are certain other things that we know that are emotionally true.” IfsThinkingKnowsKindBeautifulCertainValuesCan DoFictionDramaVersionsDetectives Author:Liza Johnson
“Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.” WayReadingFictionCrimeMy WayLifelongDetectivesHolmesDetective FictionLifelong Love Author:Stanley Bing