Quotes About Mystery

I'd rather be a creature of the night than an old dude.

I'm not going to go mystery shopping in the NHS because we have a million people every day using it and rating its facilities.

I know what I saw. And the rational explanation is... it was a UFO. There's UFOs over New York, as the song goes. And I saw another one in the early '80s, and I know other did people did too.

I mean, I'd love to see 'The Woman in Black' in the Nineties on the rave scene!

Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.

What is real is beyond all reach.

The Bradshaws suggests an extraordinary civilisation that existed long before modern man reached the British Isles.

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Who is the ideal reader? God only knows.

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

In terms of the secrets that imbue and underlie 'Fall on Your Knees', they were as much of a mystery to me as I was creating the story as they are to the readers.

In reading, you sense the divine: the things that are larger and greater and more mysterious than yourself.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.

Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.