Quotes About Mystery Genre

#1. I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

Sue Grafton

#2. 'True Detective' is a densely layered work with resonant details and symbology and rich characterization under the guise of one of the forms of this mystery genre. That's what we shoot for.

Nic Pizzolatto

#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. Creativity is a commodity and derives its value only in how energy is spent.

Mary Deal

#5. Thou madest him, but sin in him Thou madest not.

Augustine Of Hippo

#6. The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it's a winner's trifecta and you'll be rich beyond your dreams.

Dermot Davis

#7. I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

Ilana Glazer

#8. If we think about what mystery entails as a genre, certainly a big part of it is a resolution.

Matthew Pearl

#9. We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Agnes Repplier

#10. Where there's beauty, there's also pain.

A.L. Jackson

#11. It is like trying to stop a runaway train with one hand tied behind my back.

Katherine Allred

#12. Everyone who writes in the sub-genre of Victorian mystery stands in [Sir Arthur Conan] Doyle's shadow.

Will Thomas

#13. There is nothing I can't do writing in Fantasy. I can have romance, I can have mystery, I can have drama, I can have good characters - I can have everything you can do in any other genre ... plus a dragon.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. I'm an incredibly hard worker, I'm incredibly tenacious, and I'm incredibly detail-oriented.

David Brock

#15. Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

#16. Thomas Pynchon surely inaugurated or crystallized a new genre in 1963 when he published 'V.' The seriocomic mystery or thriller with one foot set in the present and one in various historical eras received its postmodern baptism from Pynchon.

Paul Di Filippo

#17. After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

Rodman Philbrick

#18. I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

Dashiell Hammett

#19. In America, they have specialist mystery book stores with whole sections devoted to cat mysteries, golf mysteries, quilting mysteries. It's a hugely broad genre from the darkest noir to tales of a 19th-century vet who solves crimes, thanks to his talking cat.

Mark Billingham

#20. Since cristobalite amplified and focused psi waves, understanding and reason were quickened to peak performance.

Marcha A. Fox

#21. I write fiction. It may have mystery, it may have horror, it may have fantasy, it may have love, but like life, it's all the same genre.

Don Roff

#22. I think authors are just realizing there's no real reason to feel limited to a narrow set of genre rules in their writing. There's no reason a mystery novel can't have fantastic elements in it. Similarly, there's no reason why your epic fantasy series can't have elements of a mystery.

Patrick Rothfuss

#23. I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

Sarah Silverman

#24. Marshall Jevons is the pioneer for integrating economics and detective fiction, and The Mystery of the Invisible Hand is another fine effort in this genre.

Tyler Cowen