Detective Literature

Agatha Christie

Literature

Knox's Commandments

1890–1976

"Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort."

🇺🇸Jack Vance

Literature

1916–2013

"Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you."

🇺🇸Tess Gerritsen

Medicine

b. 1953

"The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow."

🇺🇸Rick Riordan

Literature

b. 1964

"Fear can’t be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They’re like love. They’re almost identical emotions. That’s why Ares and Aphrodite like each other. Their twin sons – Fear and Panic – were spawned from both war and love."

🇺🇸Robert Sheckley

Literature

1928–2005

"Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril."

🇺🇸Andrew Vachss

Literature

1942–2021

"Everything that's in books comes out of what I've seen, or touched, or felt, or smelt, and if I had one wish it would be that the books were fiction."

🇺🇸Sue Grafton

Literature

1940–2017

"Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we’re all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily … life is only ours on loan."

"I'm always making the mistake of believing what I see with my own eyes."

"But mere technical details can be worked out any time. All a hero needs is grit."

"I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect."

🇬🇧Sax Rohmer

Literature

1883–1959

"There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life."

🇬🇧Jacqueline Wilson

Literature

b. 1945

"I’ve tried hard…I don’t know … my experience of my own dad and my own ex-husband possibly has some effect. I will remedy this. It is very unfair. I have tried harder, but I just can’t quite get there yet."

🇬🇧Margery Allingham

Literature

1904–1966

"There is something very good in pride of race if you can be satisfied in your heart it is absolutely genuine and is based on things you have see, heard and felt rather than on those you have read."

🇺🇸S. S. Van Dine

Literature

1888–1939

"Anyway, you know full well I never wear boutonnieres. The decoration has fallen into disrepute. The only remaining devotees of the practice are roués and saxophone players."

Arthur Conan Doyle

Literature

1859–1930

":"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

🇺🇸Rachel Caine

Literature

1962–2020

"Jealous?""Maybe.""No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."