“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
“In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.” BookStoriesHappensNextNovelMinesOrdinaryConsequenceDetectives Author:Steig Larsson
“While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.” KnowsWritingHardSchoolFormReadingNovelPeriodsDetectivesHeirsWriting Poems Author:Paul Auster
“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
“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.” MadeTwoNovelMysteryCivilizationEnglandBritishTeaContributionEmpiresRitualHistorianAfternoonCollapseDetectivesBritish EmpireInvaluableMystery Novels Book:Ayn Rand Novel Collection Source: Ayn Rand Novel Collection
“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.” PeopleWorldShouldTryingStoriesShowsCoursesFunJusticeViewsNovelAliveMysteryOughtOffersHungerBeing TrueDetectivesOrderlyMystery NovelsStealthDetective Stories Book:Thrones, Dominations Source: Thrones, Dominations
“make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.” StoriesLiteratureMistakeNovelMysteryExpressionDetectivesMystery NovelsDetective Stories Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“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.” WorldFeelsBookNextMorningNovelSeriousFeel GoodDetectivesDopeMake You Feel Good Author:Mary Lee Settle
“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.” ThinkingFirstsPersonsTwoMightNextVoiceNovelSummerVersionsDetectivesFirst PersonHart Author:Nic Pizzolatto
“How different from the cosy world of Rüya's detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed.” WorldDifferentNovelHeroNeededDetectivesCosy Author:Orhan Pamuk
“The detective novel is the art-for-art's-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.” ArtFormNovelExampleSakeContactClassicDetectivesYawning Author:V. S. Pritchett
“In adopting the form of the adventure novel, Wells deepened it, raised its intellectual value, and brought into it elements of social philosophy and science. In his own field - though, of course, on a proportionately lesser scale - Wells may be likened to Dostoyevsky, who took the form of the cheap detective novel and infused it with brilliant psychological analysis.” InspirationalWellsMayArtPhilosophyFormValuesCoursesLiteratureSocialNovelFieldsAdventureElementsIntellectualRaisedBrilliantScalesPsychologicalAnalysisDetectivesAdoptingDostoyevsky Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.” ImportantCharacterNovelCrimeEmotionalCircumstancesOffersAspectTraditionFunctionAtmospherePersonal LifeDetectivesCountrysideTapestryTapestry Of LifeEnglish Countryside Author:Elizabeth George
“I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.” WritingReadingNovelSeriousPoetProseDetectivesWriting PoetryWriting Poems Author:Paul Auster
“The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.” CasesNovelCrimeDetectivesCrime NovelsDetective Work Author:Michael Connelly
“Yeah, I'd say there's probably about a couple of hundred people I admire - but that has nothing to do with what a person does themselves. That's why I never mention these things. You can read a detective novel you really like, but it had no bearing on what you do yourself, you just think, "God, how this guy wove this together!" Or you get into the energy of it. Or you see a poem which makes a great statement about sentiment, but it's not sentimental.” PeopleThinkingPersonsDoeTogetherGuyEnergyNovelCoupleHundredYeahStatementsAdmireSentimentsSentimentalThis GuyDetectives Author:Tom Verlaine
“I included receipts, faxes, newspaper clippings, all sorts of things. I've read novels composed entirely of emails or letters, but not assembled across this kind of mix of materials. I wanted to create the feeling of a detective going through a box of clues.” KindFeelingsWantedNovelMaterialsLettersBoxesNewspapersClueEmailDetectivesReceiptsFax Author:Brian Pinkerton
“I've never before had the same main character appear in consecutive novels, but I liked Yancy and his attitude, and I was curious to see what would happen to him after Bad Monkey. And I liked the idea of him still trying to get his detective job back while he's stuck on roach patrol.” TryingStillsIdeasCharacterHappensJobsAttitudeNovelStuckCuriousMonkeysDetectivesMain CharactersRoachesConsecutive Author:Carl Hiaasen