Detective Fiction Quotes

• Es ridículo ambientar una novela policíaca en New York. New York es en sí misma una novela policíaca.

  Agatha Christie

  New York, Writing, Cities

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

  Raymond Chandler

  Winter, Grieving, Long

  The Big Sleep ch. 3 (1939)

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• Los políticos deberían leer ciencia ficción, no westerns ni novelas policíacas.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Political, Fiction

  "El rodaje de 2001 de Kubrick". Libro de Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Una novela policíaca no debe contener largos pasajes descriptivos, ni entretenimientos literarios con temas secundarios, ni análisis sutilmente elaborados de los personajes, ni preocupaciones "atmosféricas". Tales asuntos no tienen un lugar vital en un registro de crimen y deducción. Retrasan la acción e introducen cuestiones irrelevantes para el propósito principal, que es plantear un problema, analizarlo y llevarlo a buen puerto. No cabe duda de que la novela debe ser lo bastante descriptiva y estar bien caracterizada como para que resulte verosímil.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Carácter, Éxito, Problemas

  S. S. Van Dine (2015). "Veinte reglas para escribir historias de detectives", p.6, Booklassic.

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• Nunca he leído novelas policíacas. Empecé en la universidad escribiendo un libro más serio. En esa época leí "El día del chacal" y "El exorcista". No había leído mucha ficción comercial, y me gustaron.

  James Patterson

  Libro, Escritura, Escuela

  "Entrevista de James Patterson con el editor Michael Pietsch". Entrevista con Michael Pietsch, www.usatoday.com. 15 de marzo de 2013.

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• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• I am talking about the general psychological health
  of the species, man. He needs the existence of
  mysteries. Not their solution.

  John Fowles

  Men, Psychological Health, Talking

  John Fowles (1968). "The Magus", Pan

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• El criminal es el artista creativo; el detective, sólo el crítico.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artista, Creativo, Crítica

  La inocencia del padre Brown "La cruz azul" (1911)

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• Es una historia muy buena. Si tienes algún comentario, escríbelo en el reverso de un cheque.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Writing, Stories, Checks

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• There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel,
  and the deader the corpse the better.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Detectives, Novel, Corpses

  S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic

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• The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

  Cyril Connolly

  Writing, Novelists, Stories

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• Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

  Giles Foden

  Fiction, Detectives, Allan Poe

  "A one-word response to Engdahl" by Giles Foden, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2008.

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• Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Stories, Detectives

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• He sido una influencia tan mala en la literatura americana como cualquiera que se me ocurra.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Thinking, Literature, Influence

  "Mystery writer" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2002.

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• Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

  Mickey Spillane

  Libro, Escritura, Literatura

  "Writers on writing". Book by Jon Winokur, 1986.

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• Reading my way all the way through Sherlock Holmes gave me a lifelong love for crime and detective fiction.

  Stanley Bing

  Reading, Fiction, Way

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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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.

  Patti Smith

  Secret, Watches, Fiction

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• Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

  Tyler Cowen

  Hands, Invisible Hand, Effort

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• I've always had a great fondness for English detective fiction such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fiction, Detectives, Christie

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• My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.

  Sue Grafton

  Father, Book, Law

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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