"There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better."

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Source : S. S. Van Dine (2015). “Twenty Rules For Writing Detective Stories”, p.4, Booklassic

S. S. Van Dine

#Detectives Quotes #Novel Quotes

“I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.”
“Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.”
“It would be really arrogant of us to not have any of the fears.”

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“Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.”
“churches, like all the rest of our major institutions, are rooted in capitalism. For a church to attack capitalism is to 'bite the hand that feeds it.”
“A seed has to get buried in the soil for its real form as a plant to emerge. Only through modesty and humility can we grow. Pride and conceit will only destroy us. Live with the firm attitude, 'I am everyone's servant.' Then the whole universe will bow down to us.”
“Provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke.”
“But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.”

Source : Per Petterson (2010). “Out Stealing Horses”, p.127, Random House

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