#detect

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There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I thought: this whole notion of writing for the person who understands nothing, the average reader... He has to die! I can't have him in my head. And so the person I started writing for was the homicide detective.


David Simon


#came #detective #die #down #had

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.


Ike Skelton


#also #better #cancer #deaths #decreased

Nick wouldn’t dream of going on a case without his beloved cat. After all, they had been together for over three hundred years.


Abramelin Keldor


#paranormal #dreams

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective." (Letter, April 19, 1951)


Raymond Chandler


#private-detective #realism #writing #life

My glass is not only half-empty, I'm convinced someone spit in it.


Judy Nichols


#hard-boiled-detective #pessimism #pessimism

Eventually I would like to touch all the genres. I would like to do some detective stories, and I want to do a Western. I would want to do humorous Westerns.


Sergio Aragones


#detective stories #eventually #genres #humorous #i

While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.


Sherman Austin


#agent #detective #fbi #four #hours

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.


William Peter Blatty


#detective #detective story #exorcist #horror #i

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


Arthur C. Clarke


#detective stories #fiction #politicians #read #science

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.


Joseph Conrad


#detecting #exact #great #great men #greatness