This collection holds 229 detective quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Laurell K. Hamilton, Caitlin Kittredge and Alexandra Daddario.

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I think like a detective.

I read a lot of detective novels.

'True Detective' did change my career.

I'm really into the detective drama genre.

A really good detective never gets married.

You need a crime, a detective, and the solution.

'True Detective' would not pass The Bechdel Test.

I play a detective, very close to myself actually.

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.

When I was younger, I watched all the detective shows.

I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.

I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

Nothing in the television show 'True Detective' was plagiarized.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

One of my favorite parts of being an actress is being a detective.

A detective story is just the premise for conflict, as a Western is.

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

I'm not cut out to be a detective on 'Law & Order' - I laugh too easily.

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

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

A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

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

At first I imagined I'd write detective novels, because I loved 'Nancy Drew.'

Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.

A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

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

I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

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

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.

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

I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

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

I watch all the shows. From 'Breaking Bad' to 'Game of Thrones.' 'Scandal' and 'True Detective.'

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

I always thought if I wasn't an actor, I might make quite a good detective - mainly because I'm nosey.

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

If your neighbors think you're a detective because a cop always brings you home, you might be a redneck.

I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

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