Mystery Novels Quotes

Mystery Novels Quote of the day

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

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

If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find.

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

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

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels.

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

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

There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.

I do tasks for the gods, usually things like tracking down rare items or taking someone safely to a destination."D'Molay the Freeman Tracker

Durand smiles. There is nothing behind the smile except perhaps another smile, repeating ad infinitum into the distance.'Of course, ' he says.

She swore she'd never turn into her P.I. father...but that was before she ran over the body.

He had a bushy unibrow that could house a family of quail.

I measure my days by the number of homicidal thoughts I have. I only had two today. So it must have been good.

His overactive charm poured out like a lone drainage pipe after a flash flood.

A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.

We're Killers On The Keyboard

I started out a human being. But pretty much had all the humanity wrung out of me after passing the Bar and practicing law for ten years. Not sure what I am now.

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

You are the master of your emotions and you and only you have the power to control them external and internal.

That he had been born an artist—in all ways—a paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Brontë novel—has yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.

She was the kind of woman a person could die over or kill over.

Sometimes, we miss the truth when it's right in front of us, she thought. Sometimes the closer we are, the harder it is to see.

The love of money can do wicked things to one's soul.