Mystery Quotes

Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.

Jon Ronson

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I've been surprised that 'Elizabeth is Missing' has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what I decided to write.

Emma Healey

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The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Dick Cavett

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I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

David S. Goyer

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Nobody thinks mystery writers go around killing people, but they always seem to assume singers are singing about themselves, especially if you write melancholy songs like me.

Del Shannon

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A lot of the stories I write about have an element of mystery. They're crime stories or conspiracy stories or quests. They do have built into them revelations and twists. But the revelations, to me, come from seeing history as it's unfolding, or life as it's unfolding.

David Grann

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There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship.

Clive Cussler

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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.

Celeste Ng

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'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.

Cillian Murphy

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It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Albert Einstein

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I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

Bonnie Bassler

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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

Wilkie Collins

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It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for their heinous crime. My grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, was the chairman of the board of Sears, Roebuck and Co. His prominence made me an ideal choice.

Armand Deutsch

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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

Tennessee Williams

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So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

Antony Johnston

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I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Sasha Grey

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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Anthony Hopkins

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We've heard some theories, but there is a lot of mystery surrounding my adoption.

Patti Stanger

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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

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I never know what's going to move me. I'm always surprised. And it's always a mystery to the people who work with me.

Jodie Foster

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I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

Patrick Stewart

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I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.

Philip Kaufman

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I prefer to write about ordinary people who find themselves in a singularly bizarre situation - that is to say, the one moment in their lives when they are forced to confront danger or mystery.

Jesse Kellerman

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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

Manolo Blahnik

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