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Detective Story Quotes
Quotes on writing and starring in detective stories.
These detective story quotes span writers who see structure as the genre's real challenge and an astronomer who compares scientific discovery to a grand detective story. One actor recalls falling in love with a co-star while filming a movie literally titled Detective Story.
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I think it's amazing that the entire community of astronomy has done what it's done. We've been able to deduce the nature of time and space and where we all came from. It's the most amazing detective story in history.
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I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.
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It was really in the Golden Age, between the two world wars, when the pure detective story - of which the locked room mystery is really the ultimate form - became popular.
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Mysteries include so many things: the noir novel, espionage novel, private eye novels, thrillers, police procedurals. But the pure detective story is where there's a detective and a criminal who's committed a murder and leaves clues for the detective and the careful reader to find.
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Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
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