Detective Story

Famous quotes containing the words detective story, detective and/or story:

    “What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.”
    —P.D. (Phyllis Dorothy)

    “The detective novel is the art-for-art’s-sake of our yawning Philistinism, the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.”
    —V.S. (Victor Sawdon)

    “... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.”
    —Gish Jen (b. 1956)