Quotes About Clues

You've got a knack for the dead and the innocent.

victims' diaries again, cross

I hate it when it is all about the twist and when the ending comes out of nowhere. I think you should be surprised and shocked, but you should also think, 'Damn, I should have seen it,' because there are clues all the way through.

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

The past has left its traces on the world, and we only have to know how to read them.

You really have to be careful with the clues you lay into the film - if they're too heavy-handed, or you've pandered to a slightly stupider audience, then you've spoiled it for the people who are even slightly smart.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

When you have excluded the impossible, said Sherlock Holmes, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

The Brits make the best murder mysteries - I mean, did you see 'Broadchurch'? Wasn't it amazing? I love the mysteries and trying to put it all together.

To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery.

I'm the Nancy Drew of drag!

I read a lot of 'Nancy Drew' books as a kid and considered myself a bit of an amateur detective.

I often keep my eyes open for bodies. I do. Ever since I was a kid. I think I read too many 'Nancy Drew' books.

I don't mind a narrator who's self-deceiving, but the clues for their truth have to be there for the reader to see.

A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. Sometimes, though, you ended up with a stack of ill-assorted bits that didn't quite fit...Then it was like one of those novels that won literary prizes, the ones where you got to the end, closed the book and asked yourself, 'What just happened here?

and over, like a detective, looking for clues and hints of emotion.

Her personal vocabulary of iconic imagery reveals clues as to how she devoured life, loved, hated, and perceived beauty.

There will be unapologetic uses of generic types, actors with duplicating roles. Anachronisms, false starts, scarlet clues, a noirish insistence on the pathetic pursuit of human truths will pervade its miserable (quite thin) plot, and while the mystery will seem unsolved, to some it will provide the satisfaction of unrelieved despair.

Life, the dramatist of speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Don't bother looking for the meaning of it all. There isn't one. Maybe not, but life compulsively dangled the possibility. Life, the dramatist on speed. Life, that couldn't stop with its foreshadows and ironies and symbols and clues, its wretched jokes and false endings and twists. Life with its hopeless addiction to plot.

Life is a riddle, my dear. It is filled with clues along the way, with messages we struggle to understand. You've been working on the case of a cartographer; you should know that all maps are drawn in hindsight. And hindsight, if interpreted with care, is what brings us wisdom.

The detective genre is not easy because you've got to get to a conclusion that is unexpected.