Alexandra Daddario Quotes

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.

I'd always wanted to write crime fiction. I loved Nancy Drew.

I've always been a secret locked-room fanatic. I read my first one when I was about ten or 11, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express,' with David Niven and Peter Ustinov on the cover.

I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.

Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

I've read about eight or ten of the original novels, and one of them is where Maigret's in bed for the entire story! His wife is running around and solving the case!

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for kids, so that's why we decided to do them.

Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.

I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has always fascinated me, but I'll read anything anyone gives me.

I read a lot of detective novels.

My crime novels are highly structured. I never start out with a dead body. I start with an impossible scenario. Opening questions should be mysterious, weird, intriguing, and contain the seeds of the solution. The structure has to be meticulous - I'm a structure freak.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

I was never a fan of cozy mysteries of anything set in the countryside, you know.