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I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I w... by Shirley Jackson

I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do.

Shirley Jackson
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.

Simone de Beauvoir
detectivesbalancestories

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

Steig Larsson
detectivesstoriestwo

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Stephen Leacock
detectivestogetherthinking

Filmmaking is all about what we like to do on-screen. We have attempted that in the film. I have worked very hard to perform the character.

Sushant Singh Rajput
harddetectives

She was the only woman in the homicide unit, and already there had been problems between her and another detective, charges of sexual harassment, countercharges of unrelenting bitchiness.

Tess Gerritsen
harassmentdetectivesproblem

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.

Usain Bolt
detectivesmatterlying
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art. by W. H. Auden

Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

W. H. Auden
detectivesstoriesart

I think of writers as explorers, not necessarily as detectives. So there is certainly detecting that is going on - they're explorers.

Walter Mosley
explorersdetectivesthinking

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
detectivespolicestories

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

William Zinsser
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