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Now, if either of you should think of something, you ring me up. And, Detective Farthering "-he shook his finger at Drew-" you and that young Dennison scamp mind you don't interfere with police business. Do all the clever thinking you want, and when you get an idea, I'll be happy to hear it. But you let the police do the investigating. Do I make myself clear?"
"Why, Inspector, I never - ~ Julianna Deering
Mystery Fiction quotes by Julianna Deering
Art is not subject to reason, it is intuitive. When you start creating what your powerful imagination tells you, when you surrender to your spiritual impulse and inspiration completely, without thinking beforehand about the end result of your creativity. It is then as if the emotional range of your sensitive mind has been crafted into the delicate spectrum of colors. A vision of black and white is now a marvel of mesmerizing stains. ~ Jazbia S.
Mystery Fiction quotes by Jazbia S.
Women in mystery fiction were largely confined to little old lady snoops - amateur sleuths - who are nurses, teachers, whatever. ~ Marcia Muller
Mystery Fiction quotes by Marcia Muller
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery. ~ Flannery O'Connor
Mystery Fiction quotes by Flannery O'Connor
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim? ~ Mary Cantwell
Mystery Fiction quotes by Mary Cantwell
In the end, I listen to my fear. It keeps me awake, resounding through the frantic beating in my breast. It is there in the dry terror in my throat, in the pricking of the rats' nervous feet in the darkness. Christian has not come home all the night long. I know, for I have lain in this darkness for hours now with my eyes stretched wide, yearning for my son's return. ~ Ned Hayes
Mystery Fiction quotes by Ned Hayes
The address given to me by Greta was written in such a way that the words looked like numbers, and the numbers looked like the aftermath of a startled octopus meeting a deep-sea diver in a corner café. It was the worst writing I had ever seen. ~ Shoeburn Ruffet
Mystery Fiction quotes by Shoeburn Ruffet
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it. ~ Christopher Paolini
Mystery Fiction quotes by Christopher Paolini
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. ~ George R R Martin
Mystery Fiction quotes by George R R Martin
The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today. ~ Lee Child
Mystery Fiction quotes by Lee Child
Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Mystery Fiction quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
The government silenced a lotta those fellas. They even erased some of 'em's memory. They've spent a ton of money on all that alien technology research. It's why the federal deficit's so big. And then there's Elvis. ~ Angela Mullins
Mystery Fiction quotes by Angela Mullins
When I think of highly plotted novels I think of detective fiction or mystery fiction, the kind of work that always produces a few dead bodies. But these bodies are basically plot points, not worked-out characters. The book's plot either moves inexorably toward a dead body of flows directly from it, and the more artificial the situation the better. Readers can play off their fears by encountering the death experience in a superficial way. A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot, makes it less fearful by containing it in a kind of game format. [from an interview with DeCurtis] ~ Don DeLillo
Mystery Fiction quotes by Don DeLillo
Let her go… Because that girl has got to die so that you may live. ~ Sanjida Kay
Mystery Fiction quotes by Sanjida Kay
My ears become my conduit to the world. In the darkness I listen - to thrillers, to detective novels, to romances; to family sagas, potboilers and historical novels; to ghost stories and classic fiction and chick lit; to bonkbusters and history books. I listen to good books and bad books, great books and terrible books; I do not discriminate. Steadily, hour after hour, in the darkness I consume them all. ~ Anna Lyndsey
Mystery Fiction quotes by Anna Lyndsey
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? ~ Oscar Wilde
Mystery Fiction quotes by Oscar Wilde
The general consensus among historians, among the ones who can handle the fact that 'Lincoln' is, in fact, historical fiction, is that we demonstrate enormous fidelity to history and that, beyond that, we've actually contributed a line of thinking about Lincoln's presidency that's somewhat original. ~ Tony Kushner
Mystery Fiction quotes by Tony Kushner
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay. ~ Sloane Crosley
Mystery Fiction quotes by Sloane Crosley
He didn't save women. He damned them. ~ Madeline Martin
Mystery Fiction quotes by Madeline Martin
When you are too close to the center of a mystery there is no way to pull back and see the shape of it entire. ~ Jeff VanderMeer
Mystery Fiction quotes by Jeff VanderMeer
The Law of Logical Insanity: Anything that can easily be explained using common sense and rational thought is probably too simplistic and therefore false and untrue. ~ Ian Strang
Mystery Fiction quotes by Ian Strang
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Mystery Fiction quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
He was a machine, not feeling the grueling effects on his muscles as he made the slow crawl between targets, but the longer he was in the field, moving from kill to kill, the more he felt eyes on him. ~ Christine Feehan
Mystery Fiction quotes by Christine Feehan
The dragon took his other arm. But he is still a dragonslayer, no matter what. ~ Ruth Ford Elward
Mystery Fiction quotes by Ruth Ford Elward
To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin ... and I've always known where it will end. ~ D.J. MacHale
Mystery Fiction quotes by D.J. MacHale
It seems like there's a real appetite for science fiction in the States. ~ Matt Smith
Mystery Fiction quotes by Matt Smith
(...) life just creeps along, with long spans where nothing much happens... Stories solve this problem - as the critic Clive James once put it, 'Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.' This is one reason why Friends is more interesting than your friends. ~ Paul Bloom
Mystery Fiction quotes by Paul Bloom
I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction. ~ Lawrence Block
Mystery Fiction quotes by Lawrence Block
I know how to write fiction well. ~ Akhil Sharma
Mystery Fiction quotes by Akhil Sharma
Nightmares have a dreadful effect of captivating our minds during the waking hours. Nevertheless, they are merely fiction. ~ Erin Forbes
Mystery Fiction quotes by Erin Forbes
Boy bands, fan fiction, soap operas, reality TV, most shows and movies with female main characters . . . We're still so rarely front and center, even rarer when you consider race and sexuality, and then when we do get something that's just for us, we're made to feel bad for liking it. We can't win. ~ Rachel Lynn Solomon
Mystery Fiction quotes by Rachel Lynn Solomon
His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it. ~ Jean Thompson
Mystery Fiction quotes by Jean Thompson
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation. ~ Umberto Eco
Mystery Fiction quotes by Umberto Eco
I sometimes wonder what would've happened if I'd entered the competition instead - I'd probably have come nowhere and given up on the whole fiction game. ~ Paul Kane
Mystery Fiction quotes by Paul Kane
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"WE FIGHT TO CHANGE THE WORLD AND WE CHANGE TO FIGHT THE WORLD ~ Larry Visgar Jr
Mystery Fiction quotes by Larry Visgar Jr
Doubt is what keeps the heart and mind of every man alive. It 's what makes us think twice. ~ Vasileios Kalampakas
Mystery Fiction quotes by Vasileios Kalampakas
Be like the koru; as you go forward into the forever-changing future, always remain faithful to the point of origin. ~ Lauren Lola
Mystery Fiction quotes by Lauren Lola
It's a language I've come to hate, because it admits no mystery and no ambiguity into its smug vocabulary, which arrogantly suggests that everything can be known. ~ Siri Hustvedt
Mystery Fiction quotes by Siri Hustvedt
Right? I don't know why I did it. Temporary insanity, maybe. Did you ever do something that makes absolutely no sense, but you couldn't help yourself? ~ Robyn Mundell
Mystery Fiction quotes by Robyn Mundell
I don't divide my reading into demographic categories, any more than I'd divide my friends into groups along ethnic or sexual lines. The thing I look for most is a sense of literary rawness - bareback fiction, if you will. ~ Christopher Fowler
Mystery Fiction quotes by Christopher Fowler
Metaphysically, his bowl filled and emptied at the same time. Violent and maniacal to push himself so far, he'd both created and destroyed his body's energy. In other words he had complete power, self-sustaining, self-sacrificing power at the origin of himself. ~ E.J. Koh
Mystery Fiction quotes by E.J. Koh
He leaned back in his seat throwing his hands behind his head; sort of an open offer for the entire bar to get a good look at what he was working with and it was quite impressive. God why did he have to have tattoos? Or the killer smile he was so blatantly using as foreplay. And since when did smiling at a girl count as foreplay? I wasn't sure but I guess Carter was the one living man capable of this. ~ Maven West
Mystery Fiction quotes by Maven West
CREATED by an eighteen-year-old girl during the freakishly cold, rainy summer of 1816 while on holiday in Switzerland with her married lover, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and two other writers, the poet Lord Byron and John Polidori, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein would become the foundational work for two important new genres of literature - horror and science fiction. ~ Mary Shelley
Mystery Fiction quotes by Mary Shelley
The Mystery of Christ ~ Lon G. Stewart
Mystery Fiction quotes by Lon G. Stewart
She had traveled to more cities, had experienced more scenes, than anyone she knew, and still she had come away from it all with only an abysmal sense of dissatisfaction. When would it all begin, the good part of this story she was living? When would she find her destiny, her purpose? When would she have the control her mother wielded, the drive her father possessed? When would she cease living the same wretched days over and over? Why was she still feeling empty and meaningless? Why - after all this time - did her purpose in life still escape her? ~ H.L. Sudler
Mystery Fiction quotes by H.L. Sudler
A novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative perception which applies just as much now as it did in the fifty or hundred or two hundred years since the novel came to life. ~ Elizabeth Bowen
Mystery Fiction quotes by Elizabeth Bowen
One of the classic settings in fiction, a little world as reassuring as imperial St Petersburg or Victorian London, is suburban Connecticut in the 1950s. If you close your eyes, you can picture autumn leaves drifting down on quiet streets, you can see commuters in fedoras streaming off the platforms of the New Haven Line, you can hear the tinkle of the evening's first pitcher of martinis; and hear the ugly fights then, after midnight; and smell the desperate or despairing sex.
(Introduction to "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit") ~ Jonathan Franzen
Mystery Fiction quotes by Jonathan Franzen
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