Mark Waid Quotes

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.

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

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.

I'm not a great student, so I don't know that I would have been a great detective. Part of my brain sort of works that way, like wanting to figure out puzzles and figure out what happened and why people do the things they do and who they are and how it happened.

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.

I think like a detective.

I'll always do 'Sherlock' - it's something I'm not going to give up on.

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

I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them.

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 fascinated by mysteries for as long as I can remember. Real, fictional, solved, unsolved, I don't care; they all fascinate me. I think that's a core human trait.

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.

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

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.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

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

I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

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

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts 'Sign.'

If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.

I'm very good at solving mysteries.

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