Natsuo Kirino Quotes

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.

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

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

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majority of the time it is not brains that catches serial killers.

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

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.

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

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

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.

I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'

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

I've always been a fan of investigation shows.

I think there's part of me that's longing to play a Sherlock Holmes or sort of a House character, like a real detective. Like a real, moody detective. Like a real, sarcastic, mentally ill detective. I think it would be really fun to do something like that.

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

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.

I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.

I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it.

He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

The nice thing about your police procedural as opposed to your classic murder mystery is that in a murder mystery you don't know who did it. Whereas in a police procedural you know, you know everything often and you're watching the police home in.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.

Where there's a will there's a detective story.