- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Quotes
On suspense, secrecy, and the pull of not knowing.
These quotes move between a filmmaker's take on the ongoing-killer structure of a horror franchise and an unrelated aside on how intuitive a modern device can be. A more poetic line asks for a plain, quiet mystery rather than an elaborate one. Try Mystery riddles for a playful companion page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Stupid
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery Science Theater is really a postmodern show, it's really derived of many influences.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the shows that really become hit shows are often demonstrated, like Mystery Science Theater.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.
- Expects
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- Nov 07, 2020
Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020