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Mystery Novels Quotes

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson
Beautiful, World, Mystery Novels

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Jean Cocteau
God, Mystery Novels, Infinity
Jean Cocteau (1967). “The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays”, p.35, New Directions Publishing

The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

Mary Roberts Rinehart
Two, Stories, Mystery Novels

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update. If you're going to read a quick mystery novel to keep you amused while you're traveling, it's fine.

Art Spiegelman
Book, Mystery Novels, Updates
Source: www.teachingbooks.net

Has all the trappings of a mystery novel, doesn't it?

Patricia Cornwell
Mystery Novels, Mystery, Novel
Patricia Cornwell (2009). “The Scarpetta Collection Volume I: Postmortem and Body of Evidence”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

Jimenez Lai
Writing, Important, Mystery Novels
Source: www.guernicamag.com

[On Dashiell Hammett:] ... he is so hard-boiled you could roll him on the White House lawn.

Dorothy Parker
White, House, Mystery Novels
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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