Quotes About Mystery

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.

To me, science fiction is about the sense of mystery, the sense of awe. Not 'shock and awe', just 'awe.'

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.

I have never, ever, not once, met a writer who said he or she would never read a mystery or a story set in some imagined future.

I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the Ripper: its a mystery, which is part of the fascination and the fear. If you can see evil and face it, it often doesn't look so evil, but the Ripper never got caught.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

I arrived at school pensive, introverted, and not very sporty, so magic became a place of mystery and intrigue, an escape for my boyish mind.

What I do is write, and I try to write as closely as I can into what I call 'the mystery.'

It usually takes me about three years to research and write one of my historical sagas; this is one reason why I take medieval mystery breaks, for they can be completed in only a year.

On first acquaintance, the mystery of the Mayans of Guatemala can seem simply bizarre, as it was when I first encountered Maximon the god.

I believe that the question of the existence of God is an impenetrable mystery and beyond human comprehension.

Writing a mystery is more difficult than other kinds of books because a mystery has a certain framework that must be superimposed over the story.

There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.

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

One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.

To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.

It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

I think my mystery, or any person's mystery, is the thing that makes them most interesting. I try to be as conscious as possible of keeping that alive.

The addition of romance in my books or mystery to a historical romance is the sauce, not the goose.