Mystery Writers Quotes

#1. I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character, to a particular atmosphere or setting. But most mystery writers, I think, are controlled by the plot.

Martha Grimes

#2. 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

#3. I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Gillian Flynn

#4. There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people ... mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.

Richard Castle

#5. I don't know why anyone would be scared of a homeless person. The truly scary people are all the murder mystery writers. They spend all day thinking of the perfect plot on how to kill someone and get away with it.

Shannon L. Alder

#6. Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

Anne Perry

#7. I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.

Isabel Allende

#8. There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.

Richard Castle

#9. In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

Sara Paretsky

#10. I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

Arjun Rampal

#11. (M)ysteries in fiction are seldom as insoluble as those in life, as most writers can't resist the lure of omniscience.

Dennis McFadden

#12. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman

Lauren B. Grossman

#13. Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

Luke Taylor

#14. That's what I love most about writers
they're such lousy actors.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#15. Be kind and considerate with your criticism ... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Malcolm Cowley

#16. Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#17. They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

Tania James

#18. If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions
which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.

Bentley Little

#19. If we must encounter each other, let's do it the old way - in the dark, by the fire, our breaths bated, the world a big black mystery beyond us.

Meghan Tifft

#20. So you do enjoy my lovemaking?"
She lifted an eyebrow. "If you can't tell that, sir, you are blind and deaf and probably stupid."
If he'd been a peacock, he would have been strutting about, displaying his feathers.

Sabrina Jeffries

#21. There is no sin that will be left unpunished.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. I'm not a snob ... there's room for entertainment that reaches a lot of people and can be really good, but you don't just have to be one kind of actor.

Rory Kinnear

#23. Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.

A.D. Posey

#24. The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.

Francois Rabelais

#25. That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers

Manu Joseph

#26. But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Francisco Goya

#27. I think it's cool when Scorsese will pop up in a movie or something like that. I never want to make a career out of that or anything. I like directing. That's my favorite thing.

Jody Hill

#28. Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

Lynne Truss

#29. The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

Julio Cortazar

#30. For among writers there are two kinds: there are the priests who take you by the hand and lead you straight up to the mystery; there are the laymen who imbed their doctrines in flesh and blood and make a complete model of the world without excluding the bad or laying stress upon the good.

Virginia Woolf

#31. I am hoping to work with writers publishing books for first time, since I of course remember what that experience is like. It's all a bit of a mystery for new authors who don't know what to expect.

Rebecca Stead

#32. The greatest writers of this age ... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

J.B. Priestley

#33. Writing reflects life and life is a mystery. All any of us can do is press the fleet footed beauty of life close to our flesh and use whatever instruments are within our grasp to express the evanescent spark of mysticism that resides within us.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.

Valeria Luiselli

#35. It was as if his fingers knew things, but they couldn't show him unless they were moving, touching. He had to think it was similar for carpenters and writers, and he knew it was the same for chefs.

Laura Lippman

#36. I have every sympathy for writers. It's a mystery to me what they do. I can edit. I can cross out and say, 'I'm not saying that' or, 'How about we move this to here? Wouldn't that make that bit of the story better?' But where any of it comes from is beyond me. I will never write a play or a novel.

Alan Rickman

#37. Fear not because God is with you.

Pio Of Pietrelcina

#38. The pen, a double-edged mystery: cuts the writer, heals the reader.

Jenim Dibie

#39. When sex gets problematic, the totalitarianist walks in.

Jean-Luc Godard