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As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
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 don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.
I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.
I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
I never have liked detective dramas. I try to watch all of them to see what's going on, but I don't like them.
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
That's all the Joker is. It's Batman without love. The Riddler is the opposite of that. It's the detective in him.
With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
If Sherlock Holmes can survive the Reichenbach Falls, then surely we have not seen the last of Detective Sergeant John Munch.
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.
A conventional crime story is simple - it's just a corpse in the river or something, and a detective with an alcohol problem.
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
I've been watching detective shows, like 'Wallander' and the Danish 'The Killing.' I'm like, 'That would be kind of fun to do.'
My biggest dream and my biggest accomplishment was to be on HBO and 'True Detective.' It was a show that I just fell in love with.
I've always wanted to play a police officer or a detective, because I think if I wasn't an actress that is what I would want to do.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
I tend to be a fan of darker shows and love 'The Americans,' 'Ray Donovan,' 'True Detective,' 'House of Cards' and 'Peaky Blinders.'
I think, in a lot of ways, if you really strip down some of the most compelling novels, in a lot of ways, they're detective stories.
I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
I've always wanted to play a detective. Always loved detective shows, right back to 'Columbo', 'The Rockford Files', 'Starsky & Hutch'.
Like acting, undercover detective work requires a lot of performance. There's just more pressure because it's life-or-death situations.
Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night.
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.
'True Detective' was the last show I got crazy about, with its 'Silence of the Lambs'-style landscape and those strip mall badlands of America.
I used to audition for 'NYPD Blue' quite a bit, so I had this stock New York detective character that I would bring in for all their auditions.
A working detective has no hope of understanding what even experts who devote their lives to the study of criminal psychology can't figure out.
There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because the public will have learnt all the tricks.
I made 'True Detective' like it was going to be the only thing I ever made for television. So put in everything and the kitchen sink. Everything.
When you're a detective on the midnight shift, you don't have a specialty: you roll on any time they need a detective, whether it's big or small.
If you're a detective, and you use your channels to get to Facebook, and you get someone that has access, you can go on and get anything you want.
I think a lot of us responded intensely to 'True Detective' because it was so incredibly earnest. That's what made it heartbreaking and involving.
I played a homosexual bodyguard in 'The Last Detective,' and that was quite a pleasure to do something slightly different. I was a very camp bodyguard!
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
I knew 'True Detective' wasn't something I could allow anyone else to develop. But by the time HBO expressed an interest, I still had no real experience.
I would say 'The Chill' by Ross Macdonald is sort of a prototypical example of how the private detective genre elevates itself to the level of literature.
There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose.
A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, so she offered me a two-book contract, and I grabbed it.
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
I did my very first film with Kirk in Detective Story when he was the greatest, greatest star in the world. I fell in love with him, had a crush on him then.