Quotes About Mystery

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

'The Thirteenth Tale' is reminiscent of 'Wuthering Heights' because you're never sure if it's a ghost or if people have gone a bit mad; that feeling that's been channelled all the way from Bronte is a really exciting one.

The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I: someone brilliant without even trying.

A lot of journalists are talented enough to write a mystery novel, and I would say that most of the top-end mystery writers actually started out as reporters. But there is more to it than just the writing; there's a learning process, and most journalists aren't willing to do it.

I have been called a man of many talents, but I like to keep a few of those talents hidden.

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.

All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

Dead men tell no tales.

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

It's not just dead men who tell no tales. Live ones don't have much to say for themselves, either.

I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.

I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.

I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn't say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it's getting people nowhere.

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

Natural DNA is a tractless coil, like an unwound and tangled audiotape on the floor of the car in the dark.

We never quite understand and we can't quite explain.

I like my murders to start at the beginning with the corpse and go on to the end with the conviction. But when you start in the middle with the confession—well, all I can say is, that it's all wrong!