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I think like a detective.
You see, but you do not observe.
Literary critics make natural detectives.
A really good detective never gets married.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
I like the idea of playing a historical detective.
I play a detective, very close to myself actually.
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
I used to work as a private detective years and years ago.
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
I'd love to do a Columbo-type detective character in a series.
The detective and his criminal wear versions of the same mask.
The criminal is a creative artist; detectives are just critics.
Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
There is little novelty in the detective who cannot solve himself.
You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.
Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.
I am a private detective. I am paid to be inquisitive and presumptuous.
If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.
Read like a detective and write like a conscientious investigative reporter.
To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.
I found out a few months after we started [True Detective] that I was pregnant.
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.
I would like it to be said that I was a good writer of detective and thriller stories.
Not all detectives are the same - some play bad cop, some are awkward, some are funny.
Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
I was really bummed when I got to the last one of Tony Hillerman Navajo detective books.
There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better.
Let me express how much I don't care on a scale of one to bite me," the former detective said.
I'm a nut for these 'crime reality' shows. Things like 'Forensic Files,' 'Forensic Detectives.'
I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.
To be a good detective you must also think like a crook, an immoral, unethical or unlawful person
We could certainly use a detective. And I've got to hand it to you, Nancy - you sure can keep your head.
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.
Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.
I love facts and figures. It's like following a detective story, piecing together what's going on in the economy.
The best crime novels are not about how a detective works on a case; they are about how a case works on a detective.
In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.
Well I think that the mind of a serial killer and the mind of the detectives represent the duality we face as people.
I love people, studying people. That's the Scorpio part of me. We are natural detectives; we like to find things out.
I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations.
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.