P. D. James Quote: 'What the detective story is about ...' @FEELquotes

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

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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.

Otto Penzler

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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.

Otto Penzler

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A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

Paul Stamets

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In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

Tiny Tim

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We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story.

Bradley Whitford

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I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

Alan Moore

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One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Annie Besant

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I read a lot of detective novels.

Caitlin Kittredge

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A really good detective never gets married.

Raymond Chandler

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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.

Albert Brooks

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For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Robert Kocharian

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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.

Manny Farber

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.

Pete Townshend

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Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Russell Pearce

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That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.

Clark Johnson

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

Joseph Wambaugh

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It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

Patti Smith

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I didn't grow up watching detective shows. I've never even seen an episode of 'CSI.'

Cary Fukunaga

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