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Detective Stories Quotes: Mystery Writing and Craft

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Several detective stories quotes treat the genre as pure entertainment, with one author calling it light literature rather than Best-Seller propaganda or classical writing.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Literature
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Nov 07, 2020

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Quotes by Stieg Larsson

First
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Nov 07, 2020

My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.

Quotes by Paul G. Tremblay

Detective
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Nov 07, 2020

The thing I don't like about detective stories is looking for criminals.

Quotes by Natsuo Kirino

Know
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Nov 07, 2020

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

Quotes by Marie Windsor

New
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Nov 07, 2020

I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

Quotes by Elizabeth Kostova

Best-Seller
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Nov 07, 2020

If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.

Quotes by Albert Brooks

Others describe the genre almost by accident, like a writer who didn't realize their Detective fiction had drifted into film noir until someone pointed out the low lighting.

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