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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot ... ~ Don DeLillo
Mystery Novel quotes by Don DeLillo
Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense. ~ NisiOisiN
Mystery Novel quotes by NisiOisiN
As they drove on the quiet A3320 towards Notting Hill, Doris spoke. "He won't, you know. He won't pay the ransom."
Wolfe offered her a reassuring smile, but inside his stomach housed a million butterflies. Shamefully, he passed wind again, the words of his captive disconcerting him on his journey to Shepherd's Bush. ~ Anthony Hulse
Mystery Novel quotes by Anthony Hulse
badla desh bhagat kaa is suspenseful mystery novel it is story of patriotism soul who came in reporter body ~ Mahendra Verma
Mystery Novel quotes by Mahendra Verma
What could there be in this document written by a young girl in 1917? ~ Peter J. Tanous
Mystery Novel quotes by Peter J. Tanous
It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success. ~ Jesse Kellerman
Mystery Novel quotes by Jesse Kellerman
Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers. ~ Luke Taylor
Mystery Novel quotes by Luke Taylor
Already, Seattle is taking hold of her. She still holds Sedona in the dry tan of her skin and in her hair, but the fine mist of the Northwest is making its way to places she didn't know were parched. ~ Susan Wiggs
Mystery Novel quotes by Susan Wiggs
I felt clueless and nervous--pretty much the same way I'd been feeling ever since I came back from Italy. ~ Maria Grazia Swan
Mystery Novel quotes by Maria Grazia Swan
So, we eat again. Well, perhaps the relationship wouldn't go anywhere, but I would certainly put on a few pounds. ~ Max Gordon
Mystery Novel quotes by Max Gordon
One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective ... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero. ~ Carolyn Wheat
Mystery Novel quotes by Carolyn Wheat
That's where they found the skeletons. Right where you're standing. ~ Teresa Flavin
Mystery Novel quotes by Teresa Flavin
If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ~ Jodi Picoult
Mystery Novel quotes by Jodi Picoult
Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference. ~ Chang-rae Lee
Mystery Novel quotes by Chang-rae Lee
There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me there is no distinction between the mystery novel and the novel, only between good books and bad books. A good book takes the reader into a new world of experience; it is an experiment. A bad book, unless the writing is inept, reinforces the intransigent attitude of the reader not to experiment with a new world. Since there are criminals and psychopaths and sociopaths in all my novels they are in a way psychological thrillers. ~ John Franklin Bardin
Mystery Novel quotes by John Franklin Bardin
I've learned that the most unbelievable is the most believable. ~ H.C. Deboard
Mystery Novel quotes by H.C. Deboard
We're both in a rut. And when two people have the different open wounds, they can relate and try to heal each other. Maybe it'll be the same for Kayla and me. It'll be a long a run, but we might as well try. ~ Simi Sunny
Mystery Novel quotes by Simi Sunny
If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find. ~ Demetri Martin
Mystery Novel quotes by Demetri Martin
The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen. ~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Mystery Novel quotes by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dead. Supposedly Suicide. That's how they'll kill Michael too. Make it look like a suicide or an accident of some sort. ~ H.C. Deboard
Mystery Novel quotes by H.C. Deboard
I'm serious,' he said, though aware of how odd it was that he should choose to inform his wife of a personal crisis by comparing it to the experiences of a mystery novel heroine whom he had created. Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it sometimes was for a writer? And if so ... was there a book in that idea? ~ Dean Koontz
Mystery Novel quotes by Dean Koontz
Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it? ~ Patricia Cornwell
Mystery Novel quotes by Patricia Cornwell
Chief Johnson has full faith on us. Which means if I can complete this task and hunt down the murderer, not only does the chief won't feel any uncertainty on Anthony and I, but the spirits of the victims can move on. It sounds silly to believe that the undead is still around, but it is the truth. And since I have a good heart, I must use it. ~ Simi Sunny
Mystery Novel quotes by Simi Sunny
I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it. ~ George Pelecanos
Mystery Novel quotes by George Pelecanos
After immersing myself in the mysteries of the Electoral College for a novel I wrote in the '90s, I came away believing that the case for scrapping it is less obvious than I originally thought. ~ Jeff Greenfield
Mystery Novel quotes by Jeff Greenfield
One of our fundamental human needs is finding our partner that we hope we will stay with for the rest of our lives. You often find the same search in other genres. The mystery novel has a romance subplot. Literary novels often focus on that relationship but do not often end well. ~ Lauren Willig
Mystery Novel quotes by Lauren Willig
Why can't relationships come with an instruction manual for unsophisticated adults like me? ~ Maria Grazia Swan
Mystery Novel quotes by Maria Grazia Swan
Make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Mystery Novel quotes by Dorothy L. Sayers
The right things often happen for the wrong reason. ~ Alex Adam
Mystery Novel quotes by Alex Adam
I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible. ~ Rabih Alameddine
Mystery Novel quotes by Rabih Alameddine
Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them. ~ Bridget Allison
Mystery Novel quotes by Bridget Allison
When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. ~ Milan Kundera
Mystery Novel quotes by Milan Kundera
Sore, hungry, and dehydrated, Naomi Robertson lay on a festering bed and opened her eyes to the unfamiliar surroundings. Her head throbbed and she struggled to focus, due to the intake of Rohypnol. She ran her dry tongue between the gap where her front teeth had once been. Slowly, she made out the interior of the huge-dilapidated brick building ~ Anthony Hulse
Mystery Novel quotes by Anthony Hulse
I like to believe my suspense novels marry the strong characters from my romance writing past, with the twisty, clever plots of my mystery writing present. ~ Lisa Gardner
Mystery Novel quotes by Lisa Gardner
In almost every thriller, a point is reached when someone, usually calling from a phone booth, telephones with a vital piece of information, which he cannot divulge by phone. By the time the hero arrives at the place where they had arranged to meet, the caller is dead, or too near death to tell. There is never an explanation for the reluctance of the caller to impart his message in the first place. Certainly, the convention existed well before the age of the tape recorder and the wiretap. Not on the phone, in a spy or mystery story, has always been, in and of itself, sufficient to hold up the resolution of the case for a long, long time. ~ Renata Adler
Mystery Novel quotes by Renata Adler
Steve Forman strafes the south Florida scene with Boca Knights, an outrageously funny mystery novel with a raft of offbeat characters and prose that moves trippingly off the pen. His main man, Eddie Perlmutter, ex-Boston cop attempting semi-retirement in Boca Raton like a fish trying to retire out of the water, is a character for the ages. Carl Hiaasen, watch your back. ~ Douglas Preston
Mystery Novel quotes by Douglas Preston
The crazed man, after he was satisfied, placed his hands around the throat of the helpless Irish girl and squeezed powerfully. He continued his attack, until he was certain Beverley was dead. He turned his back to the wall and masturbated, squealing in delight when he was done. He then composed himself, straightened his clothes, and ascended the steps. Hopefully, he thought, the tide would wash away the body before morning. ~ Anthony Hulse
Mystery Novel quotes by Anthony Hulse
The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law.
(Casual Notes on the Mystery Novel, 1949) ~ Raymond Chandler
Mystery Novel quotes by Raymond Chandler
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 Novel quotes by Don DeLillo
The first proper mystery novel that I read was 'Murder On the Orient Express' with a gaunt David Niven and a cherubic Peter Ustinov on the cover. 'Orient Express,' you'll recall, is the one where everyone did it, which delighted me no end, and I was immediately hooked. ~ Adrian McKinty
Mystery Novel quotes by Adrian McKinty
Do we really mean it when we say 'in sickness and in health, for richer or for poorer, until death do us part or do we add a silent clause, 'unless you shame me or disappoint me?' What is the cost of unconditional love and how capable are we of giving that? ~ Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
Mystery Novel quotes by Deirdre-Elizabeth Parker
The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being. ~ Thomas Berry
Mystery Novel quotes by Thomas Berry
I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well, but her liking it makes me worry now that Nikki doesn't really believe in silver linings. Because she says The Great Gatsby is the greatest novel ever written by an American, and yet it ends so sadly. One thing's for sure. Nikki is going to be very proud of me when I tell her I finally read her favorite book. Here's another surprise: I'm going to read all the novels on her American Literature class syllabus, just to make her proud. To let her know that I am really interested in what she loves. ~ Matthew Quick
Mystery Novel quotes by Matthew Quick
I write poems about relationships, love relationships, and I'm not able to do that all the time. I could go two years without writing poems, and then write a dozen. Having a novel to work on, with the intricate puzzle of character and plot to work out, is satisfying for the time there is no poetry. ~ May Sarton
Mystery Novel quotes by May Sarton
The things about Shakespeare is, he's so eloquent...he speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible. ~ M.L. Rio
Mystery Novel quotes by M.L. Rio
Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes. ~ Graham Moore
Mystery Novel quotes by Graham Moore
It is the mystery of the unknown
That fascinates us; we are children still
Wayward and wistful; with one hand we cling
To the familiar things we call our own,
And with the other, resolute of will,
Grope in the dark for what the day will bring ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mystery Novel quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A person frequently writes in order to escape madness and crushing despondency by culling moral lesson and healing growth serum from personal experiences. Akin to riders on a storm, and a dog without a bone, we only come to understand our limits by enduring suffering. Only by deliberately confronting the essential facts of life does a person come to understand humanity. Without suffering the full brunt of love, sorrow, pain, illness, death, and accepting the relentless march of time a person never comes to know anything at all regarding the wonderful mystery of life. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Mystery Novel quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
I tell ma myself that I'm wasted, yet I know that I'm useful, I do things I despise, I despise everyone that does them, no one ever understands me and that bothers me so much yet I know no one is ever understood, no one ever understands the other, everyone is always mistaken, not even your wife will ever understand you..
Because in a world were everyone understood each other, we wouldn't see families breaking up and to the least of it married couples wouldn't quarrel for even a second...we are only humans after all...
No one knows our purpose on earth and no one will ever..that's the only mystery that we got to live with, the most honest believers in God believe that there is evil, but really if they were to follow their beliefs why would they believe in evil yet they believe that God the father of Jesus is supreme?
Everything in the world is fucked up,
Who knows that a slip on a road is fatal and then you die and everyone calls it a sudden happening, merely because they have been taught to believe so..?
Anyway that's the strange life we in ...
Perhaps I'm wrong but the truth of the matter is that everything is fucked up and we are just like robots just like the wisest man would make a robot , God also manufactured us ~ Derrick Barara
Mystery Novel quotes by Derrick Barara
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects. ~ Barbara Hershey
Mystery Novel quotes by Barbara Hershey
'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on. ~ Jim Rash
Mystery Novel quotes by Jim Rash
There are two great mythological themes that weave throughout human history: the heroic and shamanic journeys. In the former, the hero journeys out of the ordinary world into a realm of primal forces, finding and facing monsters and allies in a quest for healing.

In the latter, the protagonist enters another order of reality, a landscape of mystery and power to be pulled apart and put back together in a new and more powerful way.

These great stories remind us that the soul is not accessible merely through the rational mind. The thinking intellect is a small part of the larger self. The soul makes its appearance known in dream and deep imagery, in feeling states (dark or light) that transcend the usual boundaries of the self, and in the sacred time and space accessed in ritual and ceremony.

The entrance to this vibrant territory lies in another way of seeing, a creative and active quality of perception that engages our full capacity, across the threshold where mind, body, and emotions merge within a path of heart. ~ Sparrow Hart
Mystery Novel quotes by Sparrow Hart
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing - or one person - at a time. ~ Maureen Dowd
Mystery Novel quotes by Maureen Dowd
William made an ejaculation in his own language that I didn't understand, nor did the abbot understand it, and perhaps it was best for us both, because the word William uttered had an obscene hissing sound. ~ Umberto Eco
Mystery Novel quotes by Umberto Eco
My own 'sentimental favorite' is always the novel I haven't yet written - I suppose that's the one I consider my 'masterpiece' as well. ~ Alice McDermott
Mystery Novel quotes by Alice McDermott
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful ... It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her ... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination ... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable ~ Ben Elton
Mystery Novel quotes by Ben Elton
There is enchantment in wondering...in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted the figure before me to remain a magnificent mystery, like any alluring woman is as the rarity of a thing is what makes it valuable, even an enigma, and when something or someone is that, they become captivating. ~ Donna Lynn Hope
Mystery Novel quotes by Donna Lynn Hope
You'd have thought that after twenty years editing murder mysteries I'd have noticed when I found myself in the middle of one. ~ Anthony Horowitz
Mystery Novel quotes by Anthony Horowitz
So ... Mason, Eddie, and Mia went to Spokane to hunt Strigoi?"
"Yes."
"Holy shit. Why didn't you go with them? Seems like something you'd do."
I resisted the urge to smack him. "Because I'm not insane! But I'm going to go get them before they do something even stupider. ~ Richelle Mead
Mystery Novel quotes by Richelle Mead
Do you want to run away by dying? Or to live and accept the challenge? - Ciel Phantomhive ~ Yana Toboso
Mystery Novel quotes by Yana Toboso
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers. ~ Ben Bernanke
Mystery Novel quotes by Ben Bernanke
The truth is in the mystery. ~ Akira Kurosawa
Mystery Novel quotes by Akira Kurosawa
Reconnecting means opening up to whatever part of our experience we were not previously allowing in . . . If our problem has been with another person, we will not react to them in the ways that our habits have previously compelled us to. When we are entranced by our personality, we believe that we know what the other person is always like and what they will do, but when we reconnect with them, we realize how much we do not know about them. We appreciate and respect the mystery of there Being because we are more connected with our own Being. Once we allow ourselves to "not know" what the person is going to do or say, or what they are thinking, a much more real and immediate relationship with then becomes possible. ~ Don Richard Riso
Mystery Novel quotes by Don Richard Riso
The happiest and holiest children in the world are the children whose fathers succeed in winning both their tender affection and their reverential and loving fear. And they are the children who will come to understand most easily the mystery of the fatherhood of God. ~ John Piper
Mystery Novel quotes by John Piper
And if you ask Sister Camillus at school why, she says it's a mystery and you'll find out when you die. ~ Lindsey Barraclough
Mystery Novel quotes by Lindsey Barraclough
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things. ~ David Wroblewski
Mystery Novel quotes by David Wroblewski
My work is less violent because we tend to write what we want to read ... and I'm not that interested in gruesome books. Any violence, to fit in well with a crime novel, has to have compassion. ~ Ann Cleeves
Mystery Novel quotes by Ann Cleeves
Writing my novel 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North,' I came to conclude that great crimes like the Death Railway did not begin with the first beating or murder on that grim line of horror in 1943. ~ Richard Flanagan
Mystery Novel quotes by Richard Flanagan
CALVIN:
This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery?
If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God. ~ Bill Watterson
Mystery Novel quotes by Bill Watterson
The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
Mystery Novel quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
The surviving human beings there could do nothing but wait for the end to come. They chose different ways to live out their final days. That was the plot.** It was a dark movie offering no hope of salvation. (Though, watching it, Aomame reconfirmed her belief that everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.)
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On the Beach, the 1959 movie, director: Stanley Kramer, writer: John Paxton, starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire & Anthony Perkins. On the Beach, the 1957 novel, writer: Nevil Shute. ~ Haruki Murakami
Mystery Novel quotes by Haruki Murakami
Character is too deep to catch in a single storyline. What really moves us - what makes the great stories, and there aren't so many of them - is the inevitability of character. The destiny. All we see is the arc. We'll never penetrate the secrets of the living, let alone the dead. I've spent my whole life trying to understand people, and all I've learned is that the deeper we look, the greater the mystery. At the core, each person is unknowable. Maybe that's the soul? I have to respect that. The mystery, in fact, is what I've loved the most, in people and in stories as well. ~ Sandra Scofield
Mystery Novel quotes by Sandra Scofield
Bianca knew how to surround herself with some dangerous-looking, well-built studs - each of whom had an ass you could bounce a quarter off of and get back perfect change. ~ Avery Flynn
Mystery Novel quotes by Avery Flynn
Step into the mystery of the mind. There are billions of minds, there are billions of selves. There are billions of worlds and dimensions. ~ Frederick Lenz
Mystery Novel quotes by Frederick Lenz
He may be incensed, said Dizzy. I've never doubted the old parson's faith, but it has no place in politics. Good God, just imagine if each man allowed himself to be swayed by moral compunctions; we'd never get a damned thing accomplished in Parliament. ~ Carol K. Carr
Mystery Novel quotes by Carol K. Carr
This is what the Problem means," he went on. "This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones taken before their time. And then we hide our dead behind iron walls and leave them to the thorns and ivy. We lose them twice over, Lucy. Death's not the worst of it. We turn our faces away. ~ Jonathan Stroud
Mystery Novel quotes by Jonathan Stroud
Of all the conventions of mystery stories, the one that's impossible to break is the solution at the end. ~ Graham Moore
Mystery Novel quotes by Graham Moore
My work schedule has changed over the years. The one constant is, when at work on a novel, I try to work seven days a week, so as not to lose touch with that world. Within that, I'm flexible on hours and output. ~ Donald E. Westlake
Mystery Novel quotes by Donald E. Westlake
(Out of the Shadow is) Exceptional....Meticulously plotted, beautifully paced, its an intelligent, fascinating story that draws you in.
I couldn't put it down, a great read..
Winn, masterfully weaves together the lives of characters into a rich and vivid tapestry,
all the while exploring complex human emotions.
A definite page turner.

Patricia O'Halloran ~ J.K. Winn
Mystery Novel quotes by J.K. Winn
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