Detectives Quotes

You see, but you do not observe.

I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

People are fascinated by the darker sides of human nature, and I think they're also interested in seeing the ability that a particular detective or group of detectives might have to solve the crime and put the world right again.

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

I think people identify with Columbo because he is an average man.

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

I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

Mars and Venus are at it again. This time, Hephaestus is standing by with a private detective, a photographer, and a lawyer.

Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

There's no police like Holmes.

I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.

Yes, and many times it's frustrating, because I'm simply part of the show, and I'm not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

The constabulary are recruited from the sons of peasants and farmers. They are drilled, disciplined, well fed, well clothed, well paid, and show themselves well conducted. During all the bad times, there was not a single case of a disaffected man, though every sort of inducement must have been brought to bear on them. The prevailing characteristic of all ranks has been the high sense of duty, so that they composed the most mobile and the most effective corps in Europe….As detectives, they have, however, proved quite ineffective, because the peasant has everywhere been too shrewd for them

I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.

I never once regretted doing "True Detective".

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

I think it's pretty apparent who my favorites are because I keep coming back to them. At the top of that list would be Harry Bosch, who's now going on 20 years of literary life. I still like him the best because there's still a lot to say about him.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.