Mystery Quotes

A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery.
Deborah Harkness

Negative, Whatever, Show

When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite crime writer, Ross Macdonald, did - crank out a book a year. The only problem - and it was a considerable one - was that I stank.
Linwood Barclay

Book, Problem, Wanted

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.
Jean Vanier

Away, Move, Community

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
Ian Williams

Knowing, Turn, Definitely

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.
Lea DeLaria

Women, Men, Understand

This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
James Patterson

Young, Said, Seen

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
Anne Perry

Time, Good, Thought

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
Beth Gibbons

Life, Death, Thought

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or anything, but his spark. What makes it so great for me is that I really don't know. There's a mystery behind Brian, even to me.
Dennis Wilson

Great, Creative, Makes

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.
John Ford

Art, Eyes, Once

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
Alice Meynell

Change, Sense, Turn

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara Hershey

Human, Through, Rather

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
Barbara Hershey

Said, Sense, Everyone

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.
Gretchen Mol

She, Leave, Unknowns

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
H. R. Giger

Why, Interested, Kinds

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.
Gillian Flynn

Around, Whatever, Call

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
Gillian Flynn

Marriage, Ultimate

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.
Sissela Bok

Power, Give, Sense

I don't tweet very much. I still believe in the mystery of an artist. I believe in going out when I'm ready to sell my product. A lot of artists are out there every day. But I remember the Julio Iglesiases, the Jose Joses - and it was about the music.
Romeo Santos

Music, Remember, Artist

When I was younger, I looked at getting older as this process of getting less interested in things and becoming colder, and of finding less joy in the mystery of things. And I've found the exact opposite to be true. I find that I'm getting warmer, and that I'm more mystified by human interactions.
Jon Brion

True, Human, Find

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Gao Xingjian

Women, Men, Possible

My life was a mystery even as I lived it.
Melissa Gilbert

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
Eddie Marsan

Work, Great, Simple

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.
Diana Gabaldon

Good, Character, Heart

Fiction is able to do one thing better than any other art form: it is able to convey a convincing sense of what is going on in someone else's head. To me, that is the great mystery of life: what is everyone else thinking?
Arthur Phillips

Life, Great, Art

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.
Robert Benton

Love, Age, Nothing

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
Wilkie Collins

Makes, House, Head

In terms of publicity and interviews, well, it's really hard in this modern world to keep a sense of mystery.
Jason Clarke

Hard, Sense, Keep

You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.
Jason Clarke

Good, Women, Soul

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
Iris Johansen

High, Writer, Suspense

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