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)
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