Quotes About Mystery

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

No one knows the three-dimensional story of who I am. Or anyone is.

We have a remarkably complete picture in many ways - and it could be that we're not accounting for something that's almost three-quarters of the entire universe.

The Hudson River lay flat and black like a lost evening glove. The clouds parted overhead as the distant moon threw a single, bright beam over lower Manhattan as though it were looking for its other half.

I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.

The stories I read or get attracted to have a kind of thrill element, or a crime.

I like the thrill of not knowing what's happening.

When I go to a movie and can't figure it out, I'm just thrilled.

It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.

The first thriller ever? It was probably one from 1697. It was called 'Little Red Riding Hood.'

Francois Truffaut's 'The Soft Skin' starts with a very mundane scene of a family and a man driving to the airport. Yet the music is like a thriller, and you don't understand why. It's not until later that you learn it's because the movie is a thriller.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

Sheesha' is a thriller. It was exciting to play my first double role in the film.

A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

The very name of the thriller '89' suggests that there is suspense.

As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.

I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.

For me a thriller is a very carefully structured story.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.

That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face.

The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.