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I did not have an unlimited library to choose from on Robben Island. We had access to many unremembered mysteries and detective novels and all the works of Daphne du Maurier, but little more. ~ Nelson Mandela
Detective Novels quotes by Nelson Mandela
The cultured cop! I thought they were peculiar to detective novels. ~ P.D. James
Detective Novels quotes by P.D. James
I read a lot of detective novels. ~ Caitlin Kittredge
Detective Novels quotes by Caitlin Kittredge
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most. ~ Paul Auster
Detective Novels quotes by Paul Auster
It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal romance novels that followed, while also shaping the broader urban fantasy field from the late 1990s onward.

Many of you reading this book will be too young to remember when Buffy debuted, so you'll have to trust us when we say that nothing quite like it had existed before. It was thrillingly new to see a young, gutsy, kick-ass female hero, for starters, and one who was no Amazonian Wonder Woman but recognizably ordinary, fussing about her nails, her shoes, and whether she'd make it to her high school prom. Buffy's story contained a heady mix of many genres (fantasy, horror, science-fiction, romance, detective fiction, high school drama), all of it leavened with tongue-in-cheek humor yet underpinned by the serious care with which the Buffy universe had been crafted. Back then, Whedon's dizzying genre hopping was a radical departure from the norm-whereas today, post-Buffy, no one blinks an eye as writers of urban fantasy leap across genre boundaries with abandon, penning tender romances featuring werewolves and demons, hard-boiled detective novels with fairies, and vampires-in-modern-life sagas that can crop up darn near anywhere: on the horror shelves, the SF shelves, the mystery shelves, the romance shelves. ~ Ellen Datlow
Detective Novels quotes by Ellen Datlow
I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality. ~ Michael Levitt
Detective Novels quotes by Michael Levitt
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels. ~ Umberto Eco
Detective Novels quotes by Umberto Eco
I read Parker's Spenser series in college. When it comes to detective novels, 90 percent of us admit he's an influence, and the rest of us lie about it. ~ Harlan Coben
Detective Novels quotes by Harlan Coben
I was so high, I needed a stepladder to scratch my own ass. ~ Kinky Friedman
Detective Novels quotes by Kinky Friedman
We all have something special in us, it's a matter of finding it, and knowing what to do with it. ~ Robert Magarian
Detective Novels quotes by Robert Magarian
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels; I liked them. ~ Paul Auster
Detective Novels quotes by Paul Auster
Mary's reading list betrayed her passion for forensics and detective novels. There were so many scientific journals and books randomly strewn around her little one-room apartment that it looked like the Great White Hurracane had struck inside.

It's all part of my decorating scheme Mary would quip. This may look like the work of a slob, but if you look closer, you'll realize it's my way of giving color to an awfully drab floor. ~ Lawrence H. Levy
Detective Novels quotes by Lawrence H. Levy
What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill. ~ Rampo Edogawa
Detective Novels quotes by Rampo Edogawa
Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant. ~ Sarah Vowell
Detective Novels quotes by Sarah Vowell
I don't take much stock of detectives in novels - chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them. That's just inspiration: not business. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Detective Novels quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
When I was working on a Victorian-era novel, to get in the mood, I read several historical novels set in approximately the same period and place, and really enjoyed the detective novels of John Dickson Carr. ~ Tim Pratt
Detective Novels quotes by Tim Pratt
It's a powerful moment, when you discover a vocabulary exists for something you'd thought incommunicably unique. Personally, I felt it reading Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim." I have friends who've found themselves described in everything from science fiction to detective novels. This self-recognition through others is not simply a by-product of art - it's the whole point. ~ Phil Klay
Detective Novels quotes by Phil Klay
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. ~ Stieg Larsson
Detective Novels quotes by Stieg Larsson
Look here,' said Nigel suddenly, 'let's pretend it's a detective novel. Where would we be by this time? About halfway through, I should think. Well, who's your pick'

'I am invariably gulled by detective novels. No herring so red but I raise my voice and give chase.'

'Don't be ridiculous.' said Nigel.

'Fact. You see in real detection herrings are so often out of season.'

'Well, never mind, who's your pick?'

'It depends on the author. If it's Agatha Christie, Miss Wade's occulted guilt drips from every page. Dorothy Sayers's Lord Peter would plump for Pringle, I fancy. Inspector French would go for Ogden. Of course, Ogden, on the face of it, is the first suspect. ~ Ngaio Marsh
Detective Novels quotes by Ngaio Marsh
Humanity thrown together in the equivalent of a Petri dish under a microscope bred malignant organisms as often as benign. ~ B.V. Lawson
Detective Novels quotes by B.V. Lawson
My ears become my conduit to the world. In the darkness I listen - to thrillers, to detective novels, to romances; to family sagas, potboilers and historical novels; to ghost stories and classic fiction and chick lit; to bonkbusters and history books. I listen to good books and bad books, great books and terrible books; I do not discriminate. Steadily, hour after hour, in the darkness I consume them all. ~ Anna Lyndsey
Detective Novels quotes by Anna Lyndsey
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. ~ Patrick Modiano
Detective Novels quotes by Patrick Modiano
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels. ~ Rex Stout
Detective Novels quotes by Rex Stout
Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don't want you to be disgusted by me. ~ Stephanie Witter
Detective Novels quotes by Stephanie Witter
Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland's history and its folklore - almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both. ~ Joan Lingard
Detective Novels quotes by Joan Lingard
I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ~ Vladimir Nabokov
Detective Novels quotes by Vladimir Nabokov
The difference between a person who appreciates books, even loves them, and a collector is not only degrees of affection, I realized. For the former, the bookshelf is a kind of memoir; there are my childhood books, my college books, my favorite novels, my inexplicable choices. Many matchmaking and social networking websites offer a place for members to list what they're reading for just this reason: books can reveal a lot about a person. This is particularly true of the collector, for whom the bookshelf is a reflection not just of what he has read but profoundly of who he is: 'Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they can come alive in him; it is he who comes alive in them,' wrote cultural critic Walter Benjamin. ~ Allison Hoover Bartlett
Detective Novels quotes by Allison Hoover Bartlett
At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling. ~ Thomas B. Macaulay
Detective Novels quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay
I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Detective Novels quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell
and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime. ~ Bentley Little
Detective Novels quotes by Bentley Little
Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place. ~ George Orwell
Detective Novels quotes by George Orwell
When you write about a Muslim woman, like I did with my previous novels - 'Minaret', for example, which is about a woman who starts to wear the hijab - it sets all the alarm bells ringing. ~ Leila Aboulela
Detective Novels quotes by Leila Aboulela
He was a demon who dreamed of a Star..
She was a Star who dreamed of Falling.. ~ Sarah A. Kenney
Detective Novels quotes by Sarah A. Kenney
While I'm interested in philosophy, I find all the different theories out there somewhat difficult to get a firm grip on. Movies and novels, on the other hand, are easy to understand. So what I like to do is use pop cultural ephemera of all kinds as tools to help me try to understand philosophy. ~ Douglas Lain
Detective Novels quotes by Douglas Lain
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? ~ John Green
Detective Novels quotes by John Green
Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal ~ Diana Palmer
Detective Novels quotes by Diana Palmer
Well, the medium of film is so different than a book that just by bringing it into visual storytelling is to change it up. I think in a book, in any book, you can have a reactive character. Some of the great novels of all time have had that, but in a film you can't do that. ~ Melissa Rosenberg
Detective Novels quotes by Melissa Rosenberg
Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. ~ Stephen Fry
Detective Novels quotes by Stephen Fry
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. ~ Charlaine Harris
Detective Novels quotes by Charlaine Harris
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche. ~ Melissa Pritchard
Detective Novels quotes by Melissa Pritchard
Virginia Woolf wrote famously, "About December 1910 human nature changed." Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all through the closing decades of the 19th century, is that the intelligentsia became increasingly alienated from the bourgeois world from which it sprung, and wished to become something Higher. It wished to make novels difficult and technical – think of Woolf or Joyce – to keep them out of the hands of the uneducated and to elevate the intelligentsia to a new clerisy, a new aristocracy of the spirit. Similarly in painting, music, and philosophy. It wished to make everything difficult and technical, and it succeeded. [Economists Lawrence] Klein, [Paul] Samuelson, and [Jan] Tinbergen were middle-period modernists.

The vices of modernism come from the master vice of Pride, the vice so characteristic of an actual or wannabe aristocracy. It is prideful overreaching to think that social engineering can work, that a smart lad at a blackboard can outwit the wisdom of the world or the ages, that a piece of machinery like statistical significance can tell you how big or small a number is. ~ Deirdre N. McCloskey
Detective Novels quotes by Deirdre N. McCloskey
Modern novels. So difficult - all about such unpleasant people, doing such very odd things and not, apparently, even enjoying them. "Sex" as a word had not been mentioned in Miss Marple's young days; but there had been plenty of it - not talked about so much - but enjoyed far more than nowadays, or so it seemed to her. Though usually labelled Sin, she couldn't help feeling that that was preferable to what it seemed to be nowadays - a kind of Duty. ~ Agatha Christie
Detective Novels quotes by Agatha Christie
I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels. ~ Nicholson Baker
Detective Novels quotes by Nicholson Baker
Who has a hedge maze in a residential neighborhood? ... serial killers presumably, people who enjoy Steven King novels a bit too much, and people that are hoping one night they will wake up to find David Bowie standing at their window. ~ Seanan McGuire
Detective Novels quotes by Seanan McGuire
Nonetheless, many people, and especially intellectuals, passionately loathe capitalism. As they see it, this ghastly mode of society's economic organization has brought about nothing but mischief and misery. Men were once happy and prosperous in the good old days preceding the Industrial Revolution. Now under capitalism the immense majority are starving paupers ruthlessly exploited by rugged individualists. For these scoundrels nothing counts but their moneyed interests. They do not produce good and really useful things, but only what will yield the highest profits. They poison bodies with alcoholic beverages and tobacco, and souls and minds with tabloids, lascivious books and silly moving pictures. The "ideological superstructure" of capitalism is a literature of decay and degradation, the burlesque show and the art of striptease, the Hollywood pictures and the detective stories. ~ Ludwig Von Mises
Detective Novels quotes by Ludwig Von Mises
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much less what it is that makes me like the Parker novels so much. Suffice it to say that Stark/Westlake is the cleanest of all noir novelists, a styleless stylist who gets to the point with stupendous economy, hustling you down the path of plot so briskly that you have to read his books a second time to appreciate the elegance and sober wit with which they are written. ~ Terry Teachout
Detective Novels quotes by Terry Teachout
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. ~ Steve Erickson
Detective Novels quotes by Steve Erickson
The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels. ~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
Detective Novels quotes by Benjamin Alire Saenz
They still had sexual relations with another, slept in the same bed, shared kisses and intimacy and matrimonial fluid, however both were not married to each other in that sense, although there was a piece of paper that said otherwise. ~ Keira D. Skye
Detective Novels quotes by Keira D. Skye
We're on top of the world, Blake. It's breathtaking! ~ Autumn Ruby
Detective Novels quotes by Autumn Ruby
I did worry at one stage that all my stories seem to revolve around secrets, lies and self-deception, but then I realized that most of human life revolves around those things too, so obviously they were going to feature hugely in anything I wrote. I write about people, so my novels are going to be as different as people are, but with the same core desires, hopes and fears that we all share. ~ Jane Lovering
Detective Novels quotes by Jane Lovering
He kissed her and Ruby wanted to say, "To hell with white dresses and marriage."
-Ruby Vasquez, Ruby Ink ~ L.J. Wilson
Detective Novels quotes by L.J.  Wilson
Clearing her throat, Peabody turned the cube on record. I owe Dallas, Lieutenant Meaniepants Eve, twenty dollars to be paid out of my hard-earned, under-appreciated detective's salary next payday. Peabody, Detective Churchmouse Delia. ~ J.D. Robb
Detective Novels quotes by J.D. Robb
If I believe in the wish, I must believe I can lose it. ~ Destin Bays
Detective Novels quotes by Destin Bays
There are a lot of very good New York novels, but there's no single all-encompassing novel, the way you could look at any number of Dickens books and say we know London as a result of that. ~ Pete Hamill
Detective Novels quotes by Pete Hamill
Some sample lyrics I think I catch: "My engine races up to seventh gear; wrap your legs around my engine, dear ... The tunnel's dark, but the ground is wet; I lubricate it with my dripping sweat!"
Or, something vaguely disturbing and gross like that; it's hard to tell with the wailing guitars and the front man screaming through his ravaged vocal chords. ~ Rusty Fischer
Detective Novels quotes by Rusty Fischer
It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I was gaining weight. When I'm playing fifty, I'm ten pounds heavier! I don't know if they thought maybe I was method? But it actually worked to my benefit. ~ Michelle Monaghan
Detective Novels quotes by Michelle Monaghan
if it were part of a systematic approach they were taking to being well-rounded, self-actualised people: We exercise regularly, we go to the theatre, we read the right novels, not just the Man Booker shortlist but the Man Booker longlist, we see the right exhibitions and we take a real interest in international politics, social issues and our friends' cute children. ~ Liane Moriarty
Detective Novels quotes by Liane Moriarty
As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements. ~ Harold E. Varmus
Detective Novels quotes by Harold E. Varmus
The perplexity of life arises from their being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them; what we call it's triviality is really the tag-ends of numberless tales; ordinary and unmeaning existence is like ten thousand thrilling detective stories mixed up with a spoon. ~ G.K. Chesterton
Detective Novels quotes by G.K. Chesterton
The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people's diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming. ~ Cheryl Strayed
Detective Novels quotes by Cheryl Strayed
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