Detective Stories Quotes: Mystery Writing and Craft
Mystery, Writing, Craft
Several detective stories quotes treat the genre as pure entertainment, with one author calling it light literature rather than Best-Seller propaganda or classical writing.
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
My first two novels were quirky detective stories followed by a couple of SF/Fantasy novels.
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I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
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I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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Others describe the genre almost by accident, like a writer who didn't realize their Detective fiction had drifted into film noir until someone pointed out the low lighting.
