Quotesdtb.com
Home
Authors
Quotes of the day
Top quotes
Topics
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
Ross Macdonald
Related topics
detective
entire
novel
run
set
should
Related quotes
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
Joseph Stiglitz
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker