Chelsea Cain Quotes

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I've always felt if you followed a real private detective around, it would be boring.

I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.

Midsomer' is a throwback to the old detective tradition, in which everything happens in the head of one man. Everything depends on his intuition and experience.

When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.

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

I think like a detective.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

In the same way he's fascinated by crosswords, the puzzle of solving the murder is what drives him on.

Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

'Castle' isn't really affected emotionally by murder. He's thrilled about, 'Oh, my God, I wonder how this happened?'

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

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.

The funny thing is, though I write mysteries, it is the one genre in adult fiction I never read. I read Nancy Drew, of course, when I was a kid, but I think the real appeal is as a writer because I'm drawn to puzzly, complicated plots.

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.

The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.

I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'

I like to consider myself a detective, which is how I justify my obsession with my phone. By nature, since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be a detective, and any portal to information and investigating things I have ever been given access to, I have dived into. With my phone, unfortunately, I have immediate access to everything.

Typically, I have a fairly good grip on the plot of a suspense novel before I set about writing it. I must know beforehand how the mystery ultimately will be solved.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.