Quotes About Mystery

I like to go around, and people not knowing who I am.

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

Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.

I love connecting with a character out of the blue, not knowing why.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

It would be great to continue shooting on film. Amongst other things, the mystery of not knowing exactly how it's going to look until we see it later and having your DP and being able to trust in him that he's the holder of how this is going to look is a beautiful mystery of filmmaking I'm loathe to look up.

We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

Chemistry is so difficult to explain. It's there or it's not. And I notice with people it sometimes is there and then disappears with time.

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

I think it's frightening for all of us to contemplate that there's more to the universe than just us, in whatever form it takes, that there are higher forces at work, and to me, that's always a scary notion.

Filmmaking is not about what we see - it's a very misconceived notion; it's about what we don't see.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

The crime novel has always been my favourite genre.

Crime novelists do really well with Los Angeles.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.

I read a lot of detective novels.

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.

When I was writing 'The Luminaries,' I read a lot of crime novels because I wanted to figure out which ones made me go, 'Ah! I didn't know that was coming!'

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

I love 'Gone Girl,' so bringing 'Sharp Objects' to life, that was amazing.