Mystery Writing Quotes
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Mystery Writing Quotes & Sayings
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What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life ... and promise.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because it is pedestrian.
— Gregory McDonald
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
— Natalie Babbitt
Question marks are shaped like hooks for a reason: they will hook the reader and drag them deeper into the story
— Chuck Wendig
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
— Henry Miller
That's what I love most about writersthey're such lousy actors. — Vincent H. O'Neil
Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.
— Jane Kirkpatrick
At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
— Dennis Covington
Writing is a pleasure but family is a blessing!
— Prentiss Grant
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
— Rick Riordan
--Writing Mystery and Macabre--
— David Pyle
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
— Rabih Alameddine
Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.
— James Gary Vineyard
Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.
— Carolyn Wheat
In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.
— Adrianne Lee
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
— Joyce Carol Oates
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
— Sue Grafton
Your boss takes a dim view of SEX?
— Vincent H. O'Neil
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
— Edna O'Brien
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
— Isabel Allende
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.
— Julio Cortazar
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.
— Paul Simon
Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.
— Vincent H. O'Neil
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former
— Ben Lerner
You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.
— Shirley B. Garrett
Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!
— Lillian R. Melendez
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
— Athol Fugard
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.
— Nicole Krauss
On the Writing Process:When in doubt, take it out., — Barbara DaCosta
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.
— Jimenez Lai
It's so damn hard to write a great historical mystery based on fact. It's not for lack of trying.
— Jon Turteltaub
