Quotes About Mystery

You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!

The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn't there anymore.

I want my art to make people look at the world in a new way. I mean, what's the point of the art of writing if it doesn't take you into the mysterious?

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

Some nights, I wear my cape, and I go out on the pier. It is foggy... I look for... Riddler.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

People are fascinated by me and always have been, and I have no clue why.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

I have no clue how I got COVID. I am surprised.

I've absolutely no idea where Culoiseau is, but I'd imagine La Poularde de Culoiseau is some kind of chicken.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Who do I think Jack The Ripper was? Do you know, I've got no idea who Jack The Ripper was. No idea.

I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.

I almost find it very attractive when a woman has no idea who I am.

I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they are for.